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Supervenience vs Emergence - What's the difference?

supervenience | emergence |

As nouns the difference between supervenience and emergence

is that supervenience is (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 while emergence is the act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprising or appearance.

supervenience

English

Noun

(en-noun) (wikipedia supervenience)
  • (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

    • Related terms

    *superdupervenience *supervene *supervenient *supervention

    emergence

    English

    (wikipedia emergence)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprising or appearance.
  • In particular: the arising of emergent structure in complex systems.

    • See also

    * eclosion

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