Topological supervenience.

This paper sets out some new skeleton mathematically-couched models for dealing with supervenience in some, if not all, its many guises. Our models are based around a naïve invocation of a 'topology' induced on object sets by property sets. We have two aims: one is to provide an overview of superven...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 193; no. 9; pp. 2865 - 2898
Autor principal: Robson, David
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Sep2016
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