Supervenience vs Supervenient - What's the difference?
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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
(logic, philosophy, of a set of properties) In a relationship with another set such that membership in the other set implies membership in the present set
Supervening; occurring subsequently; coming after something, especially when not causally connected.
Supervenience is a related term of supervenient.
As a noun 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.As an adjective supervenient is
(logic|philosophy|of a set of properties) in a relationship with another set such that membership in the other set implies membership in the present set.supervenience
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(en-noun) (wikipedia supervenience)supervenient
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Adjective
(en adjective)- If mental properties are supervenient on physical properties, people with identical bodies will also have identical minds.