Comments on Patrick McGivern's “parts of properties: Realization as decomposition”

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My main reaction to MCGivern’s paper was one of dialectical puzzlement. Block argues that, Macro Non-Reduction: [all] macro properties are irreducible to the micro properties on which they supervene..

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Peter Alward
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