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For example, given a general framework in which we don’t worry about the existence of properties and facts, and conceive of properties as necessary existents, it is unproblematic that there is a collection of properties upon which all facts supervene, namely the collection of all properties. Thus, barring a challenge to this background framework (one that is not normally the focus for disputes about naturalness), there is no worry about the satisfiability of Supervenience taken by itself. We could make it true simply by interpreting ‘more natural’ in such a way that no property is more natural than any other, so that all properties whatsoever count as perfectly natural.
Some supervaluationists work in a framework where reference is thought of as being (or as needing to be replaced by) a one-many relation of ‘candidate reference’ or ‘partial denotation’ (cf. Field 1973). e. the one and only candidate 42 See Dorr and Hawthorne MS for more on the relevant physics-based measures. Naturalness | 31 referent)? The former, candidacy-based notion may behave quite strangely vis-à-vis Lewis’s original vision. If it is fairly commonplace for communities to have a word like ‘bald’ that is vague across a wide range of hair-distribution properties, whereas the flourishing of physics is a modally rare event, then many hair-distribution properties might prove easier to have as candidate referents than the property of being an electron.
Naturalness | 41 mean to quantify into the relevant position, or to flank an identitylike symbol with such expressions, his notation leaves it obscure what it would mean to claim exhaustiveness on behalf of a particular list of S -claims. Even for predicates, it is not clear whether any of the extant ways of making sense of identity would fit with Sider’s purposes, given the extremely fine-grained distinctions he wants to make. 3. HOW MUCH OF THE ROLE IS SATISFIED? Our aim in this section is to draw attention to a range of subsets of the roles listed in section 2 for which one might reasonably doubt their joint satisfiability.