Supervenience has been looked upon as a typical nonreductive physicalism theory because it seems to provide us with a relationship that gives us determination, or dependence, without reduction.

• 首先，本文对依附性的物理主义背景进行了说明。依附性认为物理属性是心身关系的根源：心理属性依赖、决定于物理属性，物理属性处于形而上的优先地位。