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| 4242 | Pure supervenience explains nothing, and is a sign of something fundamental we don't know |
| Full Idea: Pure, unexplained supervenience is never a solution to a problem but a sign that there is something fundamental we don't know. | |||
| From: Thomas Nagel (The Psychophysical Nexus [2000], §III) | |||
| A reaction: This seems right. It is not a theory or an explanation, merely the observation of a correlation which will require explanation. Why are they correlated? |