0 to happen in the middle of a situation that already exists, and change that situation:
A limited life expectancy can include plenty of activities with lots of living, until dying (or death) supervenes.
The second thesis expresses the well-known meta-ethical view that all moral properties supervene on non-moral properties.
My goal is not really to convince the reader that unity and independence are values which supervene on the qualitative properties.
The obvious way to avoid the paradox is to argue that fairness does not supervene on individual outcomes but on lotteries.
But they can conflict, and when they do (as in our case) we have to decide which is to supervene.
Any appeals to a higher logic must show that the conceptual addenda is indeed part of a higher logic, not merely supervening presuppositions.
An alternative would say that the meaning is a property that necessarily supervenes on the structure of anything as complex as a human life.
So why does he believe that macro entities supervene on micro entities?
If these properties were to be reduced to or otherwise supervene upon underlying physical properties, then there would indeed be a mystery.