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supervene [ˌsʲuːpəˈviːn] VB intr

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This is interpreted as meaning that mental events supervene upon the physical.
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Similarly, the overall suffering caused by an earthquake might supervene on the spatio-temporal entities that constituted it, the deaths it caused, or the natural disaster itself.
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According to the exclusion principle, there must be no event that does not supervene on "e" while causing "e".
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One way of maintaining the causal power of mental events is to assert token identity non-reductive physicalism - that mental properties supervene on neurological properties.
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Semantic externalism suggests that the mental content does not supervene on what is in the head.
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Do the aesthetic properties of an art object supervene on physical properties of that object?
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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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All relevant functions on some level of description are present, and higher level functions supervene from these.
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Completed results supervene upon processes that are not necessarily reducible to the parts or stages of that process.
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For example, if psychological properties strongly locally supervene on physical properties, then any two people physically the same, in any two worlds, will also be psychologically the same.
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