David Lewis posited a type of this concept holding that “worlds like ours” must differ in the “arrangement of qualities” to be different. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this concept illustrated by R. M. Hare with the sentence “St. Francis was a good man.” This relation’s “global” form is equated with its “strong” form in a paper by Jaegwon Kim titled for “Concepts of” it.
ANSWER: supervenience [accept Humean supervenience; accept weak supervenience or strong supervenience or global supervenience; accept “Concepts of Supervenience”]
[10m] An essay by Kim asks if supervenience and “non-strict laws” could save an “anomalous” form of this position espoused by Donald Davidson. David Chalmers referred to this position’s neutral form as “Type-F.”
ANSWER: monism [accept anomalous monism; accept neutral monism or Russellian monism or Type-F monism; accept “Can Supervenience and ‘Non-Strict’ Laws Save Anomalous Monism?”]
[10e] Kim’s “exclusion argument” claims events created by this entity supervene on physical events. Kim’s pairing problem draws on Elizabeth of Bohemia’s objection against Cartesian dualism regarding this immaterial entity’s interaction with the body.
ANSWER: mind [accept mind-body dualism; accept mental events]
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