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supervene::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
| Derivation | supervention |
Examples of supervene
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It is possible that mental or other non-physical states supervene upon the physical.
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This is interpreted as meaning, mental events supervene upon the physical.
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Semantic externalism suggests that the mental content does not supervene on what is in the head.
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Others maintain that higher-order properties simply supervene over lower levels without direct causal interaction.
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Some authors deny their existence, some others try to reduce them to natural ones, on which the former supervene.
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Metaphysical naturalism holds that all properties related to consciousness and the mind are reducible to, or supervene upon, nature.
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For example if we accept supervenience physicalism, the pain someone would feel if electrocuted would supervene on the firing of their c-fibres.
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Supervenience escapes this problem as the social, moral, and psychological particulars are said to supervene on the physical particulars that compose them.
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Postulating purposeful nudges that supervene among the changes sculpted by selection would resolve the evidentiary problems in conventional evolutionary theory.
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- Take place as an additional or unexpected development
- (supervention) a following on in addition
- In philosophy, supervenience is a kind of dependency relationship, typically held to obtain between sets of properties. ...
- To follow something closely, either as a consequence or in contrast; to supersede; to be dependent on an earlier event; to be dependent on something else for existence, truth, or instantiation
- (Supervening) Unforeseen, intervening, an additional event or cause.
