supervenience
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- noun
- /ˌsuːpərˈvɪniəns/
- Formal
- In philosophy, supervenience describes how one set of properties, such as mental states, depends on another set of properties, like physical states.
Examples
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For by accepting this notion of supervenience, you have allowed yourself to believe that the domain of the moral can be explained in terms of a domain whose workings are entirely non-moral (physics and chemistry).
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My intention was to express the following: forms of supervenience that are not identity theories are non-starters.
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Whether the fact of supervenience is itself a physical fact.
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But supervenience is not a sufficient condition either of type or token identity.
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All identity theories will include a commitment to supervenience.
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Type and token are versions of identity theory, not of supervenience.
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As for the idea that genres don't have agency, I direct your attention to the term 'Supervenience.'
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Supervenience is occasionally invoked, but this is to re-label the relation, not to explain it.
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But that is irrelevant to the point at hand, which is that even in the case of entirely material substances and operations, supervenience does not entail materialism.
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If by "supervenience" you mean that you endorse materialism of a non-reductive character, then this is hardly platitudinous: in fact, it's deeply mysterious.
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Antonyms
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Freedom from control by others, for example when a country is free or a person supports themselves
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Surface Forms
Morphology
supervenience = supervene (opaque) = super + vene + ence
The noun is regularly formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ence' to the verb 'supervene', so the morphological process is regular even though the resulting philosophical meaning is specialized.
Etymology
Supervenience comes from the Latin parts super- ('above') and venire ('to come'), so it gives the image of something 'coming on top' of something else. A helpful way to remember it is this: in philosophy one set of properties 'comes on top' of, or depends on, another set, so the higher-level features appear because of the lower-level ones.