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Supervenience is an English word. Below you'll find 9 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Supervenience in a sentence

Supervenience meaning

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.

Using Supervenience

  • The main meaning on this page is: 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.
  • In the example corpus, supervenience often appears in combinations such as: supervenience physicalism, of supervenience.

Context around Supervenience

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 22.6 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 5 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

main 1× entails 1×

Often after:

physicalism 3× based 3× similar 1×

Sentence patterns with Supervenience

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

emergentism main supervenience physicalism has 1× in which supervenience based formulations 1× maintaining the supervenience of mental 1× one of supervenience similar to 1× physicalism entails supervenience physicalism 1× problem for supervenience based formulations 1× related to supervenience physicalism is 1× so any supervenience based formulation 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

also physicalism defined 1× emergentism main supervenience 1× in this view 1× one response to 1× realisation physicalism closely 1× see stoljar 2010 1×

Common sentence endings:

a physical property 1× calls positive properties 1× considered genuinely novel 1× entails supervenience physicalism 1× necessary beings problem 1× on the physical 1×

Words around Supervenience

Just before it in the word index:

supervenes 2 supervalu 26 superusers 2 superuser 4 superunknown 3 supertyphoon 5

Just after it in the word index:

supervening 2 supervet 4 supervielle 2 supervillain 79 supervillains 41 superville 12

Similar in corpus frequency:

aargau 12 abacos 12 abboud 12 abcon 12 abdelhamid 12 abdelkader 12

Corpus analysis for Supervenience

  • In this selection, "supervenience" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, main, entails, physicalism, based and similar stand out and add context to how "supervenience" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include emergentism main supervenience physicalism has and in which supervenience based formulations. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "supervenience" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with supervenience

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Unlike token physicalism, type physicalism entails supervenience physicalism. (8 words)

See Stoljar, 2010, p.138 A further problem for supervenience-based formulations of physicalism is the so-called "necessary beings problem". (21 words)

So any supervenience-based formulation of physicalism will at best state a necessary but not sufficient condition for the truth of physicalism. (22 words)

Longer example sentences

One response to this problem is to abandon statement 2 in favour of the alternative possibility mentioned earlier in which supervenience-based formulations of physicalism are restricted to what David Chalmers (1996) calls "positive properties". (35 words)

Realisation physicalism Closely related to supervenience physicalism, is realisation physicalism, the thesis that every instantiated property is either physical or is realised by a physical property. (26 words)

Also, physicalism defined in terms of supervenience does not entail that all properties in the actual world are type identical to physical properties. (23 words)

Example sentences (9)

Also, physicalism defined in terms of supervenience does not entail that all properties in the actual world are type identical to physical properties.

Emergentism main Supervenience physicalism has been seen as a form of emergentism, in which the subject's psychological experience is considered genuinely novel.

In this view the relationship between mental properties and physical properties is one of supervenience – similar to how "banks" supervene upon certain buildings.

One response to this problem is to abandon statement 2 in favour of the alternative possibility mentioned earlier in which supervenience-based formulations of physicalism are restricted to what David Chalmers (1996) calls "positive properties".

Realisation physicalism Closely related to supervenience physicalism, is realisation physicalism, the thesis that every instantiated property is either physical or is realised by a physical property.

See Stoljar, 2010, p.138 A further problem for supervenience-based formulations of physicalism is the so-called "necessary beings problem".

So any supervenience-based formulation of physicalism will at best state a necessary but not sufficient condition for the truth of physicalism.

Such emergentism claims that mental facts and physical facts are metaphysically distinct while maintaining the supervenience of mental properties on the physical.

Unlike token physicalism, type physicalism entails supervenience physicalism.

Common combinations with supervenience

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "supervenience" in a sentence?
An example: "Also, physicalism defined in terms of supervenience does not entail that all properties in the actual world are type identical to physical properties." This page contains 9 example sentences with the word "supervenience" from authentic English texts.
What does "supervenience" mean?
Supervenience means: 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.
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