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Meaning of "supervene" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SUPERVENE

From Latin supervenīre to come upon, from super- + venīre to come.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF SUPERVENE

ˌsuːpəˈviːn


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUPERVENE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Supervene is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb supervene in English.

WHAT DOES SUPERVENE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Supervenience

In philosophy, supervenience is an ontological relation that is used to describe cases where the lower-level properties of a system determine its higher level properties. Some philosophers hold that the world is structured in to a kind of hierarchy of properties, where the higher level properties supervene on the lower level properties. According to this type of view, social properties supervene on psychological properties, psychological properties supervene on biological properties, biological properties supervene on chemical properties, etc. That is, the chemical properties of the world determine a distribution of biological properties, those biological properties determine a distribution of psychological properties, and so forth. So, for example, mind-body supervenience holds that "every mental phenomenon must be grounded in, or anchored to, some underlying physical base. This means that mental states can occur only in systems that can have physical properties; namely physical systems." It is useful to know both when supervenience does and does not obtain.

Definition of supervene in the English dictionary

The definition of supervene in the dictionary is to follow closely; ensue. Other definition of supervene is to occur as an unexpected or extraneous development.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SUPERVENE

PRESENT

Present
I supervene
you supervene
he/she/it supervenes
we supervene
you supervene
they supervene
Present continuous
I am supervening
you are supervening
he/she/it is supervening
we are supervening
you are supervening
they are supervening
Present perfect
I have supervened
you have supervened
he/she/it has supervened
we have supervened
you have supervened
they have supervened
Present perfect continuous
I have been supervening
you have been supervening
he/she/it has been supervening
we have been supervening
you have been supervening
they have been supervening
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I supervened
you supervened
he/she/it supervened
we supervened
you supervened
they supervened
Past continuous
I was supervening
you were supervening
he/she/it was supervening
we were supervening
you were supervening
they were supervening
Past perfect
I had supervened
you had supervened
he/she/it had supervened
we had supervened
you had supervened
they had supervened
Past perfect continuous
I had been supervening
you had been supervening
he/she/it had been supervening
we had been supervening
you had been supervening
they had been supervening
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will supervene
you will supervene
he/she/it will supervene
we will supervene
you will supervene
they will supervene
Future continuous
I will be supervening
you will be supervening
he/she/it will be supervening
we will be supervening
you will be supervening
they will be supervening
Future perfect
I will have supervened
you will have supervened
he/she/it will have supervened
we will have supervened
you will have supervened
they will have supervened
Future perfect continuous
I will have been supervening
you will have been supervening
he/she/it will have been supervening
we will have been supervening
you will have been supervening
they will have been supervening
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would supervene
you would supervene
he/she/it would supervene
we would supervene
you would supervene
they would supervene
Conditional continuous
I would be supervening
you would be supervening
he/she/it would be supervening
we would be supervening
you would be supervening
they would be supervening
Conditional perfect
I would have supervene
you would have supervene
he/she/it would have supervene
we would have supervene
you would have supervene
they would have supervene
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been supervening
you would have been supervening
he/she/it would have been supervening
we would have been supervening
you would have been supervening
they would have been supervening
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you supervene
we let´s supervene
you supervene
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to supervene
Past participle
supervened
Present Participle
supervening
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SUPERVENE

aberdevine · advene · contravene · convene · Devine · intervene · landgravine · Lavigne · margravine · mauveine · nervine · olivine · palsgravine · prevene · ravine · reconvene · Slovene · subvene · sylvine · Wien

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUPERVENE

supertonic · supertruck · supertwist · supervenience · supervenient · supervention · supervirile · supervirtuosi · supervirtuoso · supervirulent · supervisal · supervise · supervisee · supervision · supervision order · supervisor · supervisorship · supervisory · supervisory board · supervolute

WORDS THAT END LIKE SUPERVENE

Abilene · bene · benzene · dene · ethylene · gene · Greene · hygiene · indigene · Irene · nene · neoprene · obscene · polyethylene · polypropylene · propylene · scene · sene · serene · sex scene

Synonyms and antonyms of supervene in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «supervene» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF SUPERVENE

Find out the translation of supervene to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of supervene from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «supervene» in English.
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supervene
1,325 millions of speakers
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supervene
570 millions of speakers
en

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supervene
510 millions of speakers
hi

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supervene
380 millions of speakers
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supervene
280 millions of speakers
ru

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supervene
278 millions of speakers
pt

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sobrevêm
270 millions of speakers
bn

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supervene
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

surviennent
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Menyelia
190 millions of speakers
de

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supervene
180 millions of speakers
ja

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supervene
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

supervene
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Ngawasi
85 millions of speakers
vi

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xảy đến
80 millions of speakers
ta

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மாறு
75 millions of speakers
mr

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पर्यवेक्षक
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

hemen gelmek
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

sopravvengono
65 millions of speakers
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supervene
50 millions of speakers
uk

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supervene
40 millions of speakers
ro

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surveni
30 millions of speakers
el

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supervene
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

daar tussen
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

supervenierar
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

supervene
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of supervene

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUPERVENE»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about supervene

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUPERVENE»

Discover the use of supervene in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to supervene and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics
It follows from a naturalistic version of OU that moral facts and properties both weakly and strongly supervene on economic, social, psychological, and biological facts and properties. According to OU, distributive injustice is intrinsically bad ...
David Owen Brink, 1989
2
Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology ...
One of the few claims accepted by nearly everyone writing about the nature of value is that the evaluative features of things supervene on their natural features. Take any two persons, actions, characters, or states of affairs that are idenncal in  ...
Michael Smith, 2004
3
The Philosophy of Psychology
4.3 Do mental states supervene on local facts? Let us try another tack. Consider the way in which physicalism about the mental is often expressed: by claiming that mental states supervene upon brain states. It is often said that there can be no ...
George Botterill, Peter Carruthers, 1999
4
Supervenience: New Essays
2-3) instructively notes: The O.E.D. lists 1594 for the first documented occurrence of the adjective “supervenient” [citing “By reason of the cold supervenient winter, I was tied to the bed” Alex Hume] and 1647-48 for the verb “supervene”; the ...
Elias E. Savellos, Umit D. Yalcin, 2007
5
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory
The claim that consciousness is partly constitutive of content is controversial, but in any case there is little reason to believe that intentionality fails to supervene in a separate, nonderivative way. Leaving any phenomenological aspects aside, ...
David J. Chalmers, 1996
6
Explaining Attitudes: A Practical Approach to the Mind
planet') do not supervene on local microstructure. So, if one holds with Fodor that taxonomy in the sciences is by causal powers, and that relational properties can be taxonomic, then one is logically barred from taking causal powers to ...
Lynne Rudder Baker, 1995
7
Physicalism and Its Discontents
There are two problems: (1) there may be some property instantiations that are not physically detectable, and (2) even for physically detectable properties the most we have shown is that they nomologically supervene on the physical state. 31 ...
Carl Gillett, Barry Loewer, 2007
8
Historical Dictionary of Metaphysics
that CI-universals locally supervene on C2-universals in the weak sense is to say that for any possible world, W, if two things, x and y, share all of their C2- universals in W, then x and y share all of their C] -universals in W. On the other hand, ...
Gary Rosenkrantz, Joshua Hoffman, 2010
9
Law: Metaphysics, Meaning, and Objectivity
... this is not the place to argue the point (see Greenberg 2005). In fact, it is natural to appeal to constitutive truths to explain modal ones. For example, that the A facts constitute the B facts explains why the B facts supervene on the A facts  ...
Enrique Villanueva, 2007
10
Contemporary Materialism: A Reader
And secondly, whether they are mental or not, beliefs will still not supervene on them. For two thinkers could easily have all the same intrinsic properties and still have different beliefs. This is an obvious moral of Putnam's “Twin Earth” ...
Paul K. Moser, Professor and Chair of Philosophy Paul K Moser, J. D. Trout, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUPERVENE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term supervene is used in the context of the following news items.
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DIABETES AND LIFE EXPECTANCY
Poorly controlled blood sugar levels which allow complications such as eye damage, kidney disease and heart disease to supervene is responsible for this ... «Daily Sun, Mar 15»
2
Tango Fire, Peacock Theatre, London — review
It is, in fact, all very predictable, but irresistible, because — until the tedious gymnastics in the later sections of the programme supervene — we see the tango as ... «Financial Times, Jan 15»
3
Neuroenhancement and the Extended Mind Hypothesis
That is to say, mental phenomena could supervene upon many different physical systems. There was nothing uniquely special about neurons and other brain ... «Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Jan 15»
4
Connecticut Girl Demands Freedom To Refuse Chemotherapy
So, it is unconscionable for the state to supervene and interfere. Corporatist machine medicine, one size fits all medicine has infested every level of our health ... «Capital OTC, Jan 15»
5
Does Max Tegmark Kill A Daughter In A Parallel World ?
Instead, all potential partial processes consistent with the observations are together what the observation supervenes on. Thus, if you look with high space-time ... «Science 2.0, Oct 14»
6
Evolve This: Getting Language from Darwin's "Horrid Doubt"
Not only must the materialist presuppose that thoughts can supervene on physical neurons, he or she must also attempt to account for a plausible account of the ... «Discovery Institute, Oct 14»
7
How Friedrich Engels' Predictions for World War I Came True
“If the war was fought out to the end without internal disturbances a state of exhaustion would supervene such as Europe has not experienced for two hundred ... «The National Interest Online, Sep 14»
8
Revisiting the Relationship Between Intrinsic Value and Market Price
The particular danger to the analyst is that, because of such delay, new determining factors may supervene before the market price adjusts itself to the value as ... «GuruFocus.com, Sep 14»
9
David J. Kerr, CBE, MD, DSc, FRCP, FMedSci
... of collaborating European countries, but now is bound together by an increasingly intricate series of laws, and many of these laws supervene the legislature, ... «Medscape, Aug 14»
10
Behold, Ogun mystery rocks with human face
A grandson of Adeoye, Michael, who said he was among those ordained by his grandfather to supervene activities at the site, however, warned against attempt ... «Daily Sun, Jul 14»
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