Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind

[bennyboy]

I finally found my way to this thread of yours!

And.... what can I say... when you redefine transcendence in that way, then yes... but don't expect me to apply the same agreement if you start using the common definition of transcendence:

adjective
1. going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding.
2. superior or supreme.
3. Theology. (of the Deity) transcending the universe, time, etc.
4. Philosophy.
Scholasticism. above all possible modes of the infinite.
Kantianism. transcending experience; not realizable in human experience.
(in modern realism) referred to, but beyond, direct apprehension; outside consciousness.

Tell you what... how about you come up with a different word, instead of "transcendent"?

The point is that the property has in a sense escaped the bounds of the mechanism on which it supervenes. The property has its own identity, despite supposing to be rooted in that mechanism.

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I think you're one of those people who likes to make up his own definitions for words.

Nope. I'm using that word because I know what it usually means, and that's the meaning I want.