The Minuteness Charge 5. Introduction Everything whatever is determined by the physical. So goes the sweeping physicalist slogan. Given the physical conditions that obtain in our world, and given any other world in which the same physical conditions obtain, the two worlds are the same as regards what things have what nonphysical properties. Worlds that are physical duplicates are duplicates in nonphysical conditions as well.
X obtains in the other.
Mostly these differences will make no difference for what follows, which speaks of one or another as needed. No matter what the details of how the disparate specific nonphysical conditions are determined by specific physical conditions peculiar to them, physicalists need a way of generalizing over them all and summing them up. This is one of D's jobs. It is not sufficient. Any adequate characterization of physicalism requires further theses, not all of them metaphysical.