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“Constitutive relevance”: “[…] all the lower-level properties, activities, and organizational features of the parts are relevant to—contribute to—the property or activity of the whole” (Craver this collection, p. 15).
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“Relation condition”: “the componency relationship between things at higher and lower levels” (Craver this collection, p. 19).
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“[...] things must behave in the sorts of ways they do not because the laws of nature require them to, but rather because this is how they are intrinsically disposed to behave” (Ellis 2002, pp. 3–4).
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“[…] the claim that fundamental natural properties are essentially dispositional. […] x is disposed to manifest M in response to stimulus S iff were x to undergo S x would yield manifestation M” (Bird 2007, p. 24).