 Many theories aim to remove the mystery from the social world by characterizing a non-social “determination base”: i.e., a domain of non-social entities that exhaustively determines the social. Some put forward a strong claim about the relation between the social and the non-social: for instance, they claim that social entities are reducible to some particular set of non-social entities (see entry on  scientific reduction).  Others make weaker claims, such as that the set of social properties globally supervenes (see  section 2.3)  on some set of non-social properties.