Properties microbased

These considerations are sufficient to show that multiply instantiated properties are as bad from the point of view of economical reduction as multiply realized properties. And this brings us to the issue of microbased properties. Kim borrows and endorses Armstrongs notion of a structural property to characterize the microbasis relation ... 

Microbased properties are supposed to be immune from the exclusion argument. Why Fundamentally, because they represent novel causal powers, novel relative to the causal powers of their constituent properties and relations. Recall the conclusion of the passage quoted earlier ... 

So, let higher-level microbased properties be the A properties, and let the lower-level basis properties be the B properties. We obtain exactly the same... 

So, to sum up (i) functional reduction is not economical reduction functional properties cannot be reduced to realizer properties even in the most favorable, single-realizer scenarios. (2) Microbased properties cannot be economically reduced to (any of) their supervenience base properties. (3) The exclusion argument can be reformulated in terms of a notion of supervenience that permits properties of wholes to supervene on properties of parts, and this puts higher-level, microbased properties into competition with their lower-level constituent properties. Finally, (4) the incoherence and conventionality objections can be mounted against any and all properties that have not been economically reduced. 

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