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Meaning of "supervenience" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SUPERVENIENCE

supervenience  [ˌsuːpəˈviːnɪəns] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUPERVENIENCE

noun
adjective
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adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Supervenience is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SUPERVENIENCE 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 supervenience in the English dictionary

The definition of supervenience in the dictionary is a subsequent occurrence.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SUPERVENIENCE


alliance
əˈlaɪəns
ambiance
ˈæmbɪəns
ambience
ˈæmbɪəns
appliance
əˈplaɪəns
audience
ˈɔːdɪəns
compliance
kəmˈplaɪəns
convenience
kənˈviːnɪəns
defiance
dɪˈfaɪəns
experience
ɪkˈspɪərɪəns
faineance
ˈfeɪnɪəns
lenience
ˈliːnɪəns
neuroscience
ˈnjʊərəʊˌsaɪəns
obedience
əˈbiːdɪəns
prevenience
prɪˈviːnɪəns
provenience
prəʊˈviːnɪəns
radiance
ˈreɪdɪəns
reliance
rɪˈlaɪəns
resilience
rɪˈzɪlɪəns
science
ˈsaɪəns
variance
ˈvɛərɪəns

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUPERVENIENCE

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE SUPERVENIENCE

at your convenience
at your earliest convenience
Bachelor of Science
bioscience
computer science
conference
conscience
disobedience
earth science
flag of convenience
impatience
inconvenience
information science
life science
Master of Science
natural science
patience
political science
social science
target audience
work experience

Synonyms and antonyms of supervenience in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «supervenience» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SUPERVENIENCE

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The translations of supervenience from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «supervenience» in English.

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随附
1,325 millions of speakers

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superveniencia
570 millions of speakers

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supervenience
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supervenience
380 millions of speakers
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supervenience
280 millions of speakers

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supervenience
278 millions of speakers

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superveniência
270 millions of speakers

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supervenience
260 millions of speakers

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survenance
220 millions of speakers

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Penyeliaan
190 millions of speakers

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supervenience
180 millions of speakers

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併発
130 millions of speakers

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supervenience
85 millions of speakers

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Supervenience
85 millions of speakers
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supervenience
80 millions of speakers

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supervenience
75 millions of speakers

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पर्यवेक्षण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

supervenience
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sopravvenienza
65 millions of speakers

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superweniencja
50 millions of speakers

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supervenience
40 millions of speakers

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supervenience
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συνεπαγωγή
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supervenience
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Translator English - Swedish

superveniens
10 millions of speakers
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supervenience
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Trends of use of supervenience

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUPERVENIENCE»

The term «supervenience» is normally little used and occupies the 137.830 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SUPERVENIENCE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «supervenience» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «supervenience» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUPERVENIENCE»

Discover the use of supervenience in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to supervenience and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical Essays
This collection of essays presents the core of the work of influential philosopher Jaegwon Kim.
Jaegwon Kim, 1993
2
Supervenience: New Essays
Supervenience is one of the 'hot discoveries' of analytic philosophy, and this collection of essays on the topic represents an examination of it and its application to major areas of philosophy.
Elias E. Savellos, Umit D. Yalcin, 2007
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Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy ...
If asked what Humeanism could mean today, there is no other philosopher to turn to whose work covers such a wide range of topics from a unified Humean perspective as that of David Lewis.
Gerhard Preyer, Frank Siebelt, 2002
4
Laws of Nature, Causation, and Supervenience
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Michael Tooley, 1999
5
Supervenience
The International Research library of Philosophy collects in book form a wide range of important and influential essays in philosophy, drawn predominantly from English language journals.
Jaegwon Kim, 2002
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Supervenience and realism
This book aims to offer an explanation of the source of supervenience in different domains and to investigate the anti-realistic implications of these explanations.
Dalia Drai, 1999
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Index
But without such extra commentary, and in particular in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language, supervenience claims may easily be part of the problem rather than part of the solution (see Reductionism in the philosophy of ...
Edward Craig, 1998
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The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory
The distinction between logical and natural supervenience is vital for our purposes.1' We can intuitively understand the distinction as follows. If B- properties supervene logically on A-properties, then once God (hypotheti- cally) creates a world ...
David J. Chalmers, 1996
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The self, supervenience, and personal identity
Professor Alexander addresses the problem of personal identity by investigating the self in terms of its ontological nature and its relationship to time.
Ronald G. Alexander, 1997
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Essays on Moral Realism
A decade ago, in an article entitled 'Moral Realism' I presented an argument intended to show that two properties, which I called supervenience and lack of entailment, provided together an unpleasant mystery for moral realism ( Blackburn, ...
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, 1988

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUPERVENIENCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term supervenience is used in the context of the following news items.
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Libertà, indeterminismo, pulsione
A questo punto, per spiegare la compatibilità, entra in gioco il concetto di "sopravvenienza" (supervenience). L'autore fa l'esempio di un palloncino pieno d'aria: ... «Babylonpost, May 15»
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论感受性在心理内容表征中的作用
... 有些类似于戴维森提出的随附性物理主义概念(Supervenience physicalism),这是一种非还原的物理主义,即心理事件随附在物理事件上,而不是还原为物理事件。 «科学时报, Apr 15»
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Rebecca Coulson: Learning, work and life – and the intrinsic value …
... truthmakers with application conditions, whether supervenience can help us to understand reductionism, and how tomatoes pretty much definitely exist… «Conservative Home, Mar 15»
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Efficient causation: Our debt to Aristotle and Hume
This is reflected, for instance, in the version of “Humean supervenience” in the work of the late David Lewis. According to Lewis's own guarded statement of this ... «OUPblog, Oct 14»
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The Principle of Cooperation
Strong emergence goes beyond supervenience or simple emergence by rejecting reductionism and asserting downward causation – that higher levels of ... «Metapsychology, Mar 14»
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h+ Media | Future Day Talk - Technological Determinism - by …
Andrew defends the view that the relationship between physical and conscious properties is one of symmetrical representation, rather than supervenience. «h+ Magazine, Mar 14»
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Love, Chemistry, and Atheism
But supervenience is not all that strong a relationship, and it certainly isn't an identity relationship. So there's still a question of whether the mind is identical to the ... «Patheos, Feb 14»
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Posthuman Hyperplasticity: Smearing Omohundro's basic AI drives
Local supervenience might well not hold for system values. But let's assume that it does. The problem for Omohundro is that the relevant inner determining ... «h+ Magazine, Dec 13»
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自然化认识论:从方法到内容
这两种观点符合弱随附性(weak supervenience)和强随附性(strong supervenience)。”【10】从这里可以看出,金在权把规范认识论中的一些常规性问题提出来用以 ... «科学时报, Oct 13»
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与师生谈科学之弊8:还原论教条
近些年来,还有进一步将还原论弱化的趋势,比如更具包容性的“新潮还原论”(new wave reductionism)、“随附论”(supervenience),更为温和的解释还原论,以及认为 ... «科学时报, Jul 13»

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« EDUCALINGO. Supervenience [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/supervenience>. May 2024 ».
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