Some conceptual clarifications The employment of the construction metaphor"is not the same as that of the notion of reduction Reduction" surely offers a typical illustration of such a metaphor but it does not exhaust all of the latters meanings For instance, though non-reductive physicalism is definitely non-reductive it still fits the pattern of the"construction metaphor" in the sense that the supervenience relation ship"itself is asymmetricalSome conceptual clarifications • The employment of the “construction metaphor” is not the same as that of the notion of “reduction”. “Reduction” surely offers a typical illustration of such a metaphor, but it does not exhaust all of the latter’s meanings. • For instance, though non-reductive physicalism is definitely non-reductive, it still fits the pattern of the “construction metaphor” in the sense that the “supervenience relationship” itself is asymmetrical