Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Coming in upon something as additional or extraneous; superadvenient; added; additional; following in close conjunction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Coming as something additional or extraneous; coming afterwards.
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- adjective logic, philosophy, of a set of properties In a relationship with another set such that membership in the other set implies membership in the present set
- adjective
Supervening ; occurringsubsequently ; coming after something, especially when not causally connected.
Etymologies
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Examples
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“Space: An abstract system of non-supervenient relations.”
Structural Realism Ladyman, James 2009
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The interpretation of entangled states in quantum mechanics in terms of strongly non-supervenient relations goes back to Cleland (1984).
Structural Realism Ladyman, James 2009
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Kass is surely right to insist that we recognize that our morally significant mental capacities are embodied, concrete, supervenient on a biological base.
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The possible worlds component of the model would represent beliefs about the supervenience base, while the norms would be needed to represent a person's beliefs involving the supervenient moral properties.
Boys in White Suits 2009
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The mere fact that every particular has a physical property does not rule out the possibility that some particulars also have non-supervenient mental properties, i.e. mental properties that are only contingently related to the physical.
Physicalism Stoljar, Daniel 2009
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Kass is surely right to insist that we recognize that our morally significant mental capacities are embodied, concrete, supervenient on a biological base.
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Similarly, advocates of OSR such as Esfeld, French and Ladyman emphasise that the non-supervenient relations implied by quantum entanglement undermine the ontological priority conferred on individuals in most traditional metaphysics.
Structural Realism Ladyman, James 2009
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But all of them involve three elements: a set of supervenient entities
The Normativity of Meaning and Content Glüer, Kathrin 2009
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That I strongly suspect that non-darwinian (and non-neodarwinian) mechanisms play a supervenient role in evolution doesn't make me a religious fundamentalist, a "Wedgie," a Creationist or even a heretic.
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In Newtonian spacetime, the kinematical behavior of a system of point particles under the action of finite forces is supervenient upon ascriptions of particular values of position and momentum to the particles along their trajectories.
Holism and Nonseparability in Physics Healey, Richard 2008
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