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| Humean World: a world without causality - phenomenally like our world. See also David K. Lewis, Humean supervenience, Humean mosaic._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Michael Esfeld on Humean World - Dictionary of Arguments
I 297f Humean supervenience/Lewis: the world is a mosaic of local states of particulars (single facts). It is a simple system of external relations of space-time intervals. There is no difference without a distinction in the arrangement of properties - all supervenes on everything - point properties are always intrinsic. >Supervenience, cf. >"Mosaic", >Intrinsic, >Causality, >Causality/Hume, >Causality/Lewis, >Explanation, >Reality, >World/Thinking._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Es I M. Esfeld Holismus Frankfurt/M 2002 |
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