Metaphysical Vs Natural Supervenience

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For the purposes of this paper, a grasp of the differences between logical, metaphysical, and natural supervenience will be sufficient to understand the arguments put forth by materialists, property dualists, and eliminativists. Logical supervenience can be characterized by the claim: B-properties supervene logically on A-properties if it is logically impossible for two situations to have the same B-properties without also sharing the same A-properties. Another way of thinking about this is to consider what it would be in God's power to create. It would be impossible for God to create a world in which, for example, bachelors were married. Due to the meanings of those two terms, it is logically impossible for a bachelor to be married. Therefore,

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