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  • verb Present participle of subvene.

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Examples

  • This opens room for cases in which the supervening set A contains properties formed by quantification, like being such that every F is a G, and the subvening set B does not.

    Supervenience McLaughlin, Brian 2005

  • A third potential difference between global and individual supervenience is that the former, but not the latter, is compatible with the supervening and subvening properties being possessed by different individuals (see Haugeland 1982).

    Supervenience McLaughlin, Brian 2005

  • Let us now see what is the case when the supervening and subvening property sets are brought into line with each other.

    Supervenience McLaughlin, Brian 2005

  • When the subvening set contains both intrinsic properties and all of the extrinsic properties that can be generated from them?

    Supervenience McLaughlin, Brian 2005

  • If we bring the property sets into line by restricting both the supervening and subvening sets to intrinsic properties ” however exactly the notion of an intrinsic property is to be captured

    Supervenience McLaughlin, Brian 2005

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