supervenience

Noun

Meaning

supervenience (usually uncountable, plural superveniences)

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(philosophy) The state or quality of being supervenient, of being in a dependency relationship such that an object with the supervened properties must also have the supervening properties

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Related terms

convenience supervene supervenient

Examples

Also, physicalism defined in terms of supervenience does not entail that all properties in the actual world are type identical to physical properties. Source: Internet

Such emergentism claims that mental facts and physical facts are metaphysically distinct while maintaining the supervenience of mental properties on the physical. Source: Internet

In this view the relationship between mental properties and physical properties is one of supervenience – similar to how "banks" supervene upon certain buildings. Source: Internet

Realisation physicalism Closely related to supervenience physicalism, is realisation physicalism, the thesis that every instantiated property is either physical or is realised by a physical property. Source: Internet

Unlike token physicalism, type physicalism entails supervenience physicalism. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

superveillance supervene supervene upon superveniency supervenient supervening cause