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philosophy, supervenience refers to a relation between sets of properties or sets of facts. X is said to supervene on Y if and only if some difference...

criticized for leading to causal overdetermination. The canonical example concerns emergent mental states (M and M∗) that supervene on physical states (P...

above" the physical, or that everything supervenes on the physical. It is opposed to idealism, according to which the world arises from mind. Physicalism...

event that does not supervene on e while causing e*. To show this better, substitute "the desire to lift one's arm" for "e", and "one to lift their arm" for...

the liberalisations soon became moot because EU agricultural controls supervened. In 2015 and 2016, 69 per cent of the employed workers is organised in...

mathematics, intellect, and other emergent phenomena, either supervene upon the physical or can be reduced to a physical account; Nature operates by the laws of...

supervene on mechanisms. While the notion of mechanism is understood differently, the definition put forward by the group of philosophers referred to...

of the first step leading down to the tomb on 4 November 1922. The cause of Carnarvon's death was pneumonia supervening on [facial] erysipelas (a streptococcal...

prefixes commonly used in the English language from P to Z. See also the lists from A to G and from H to O. Some of those used in medicine and medical technology...

August thirteen ounces of blood were drawn from him and the tertian ague supervened. On Thursday, 17 August, at nine o'clock in the forenoon he took medicine...

possibility that some unreasonable enmities should not supervene – we have thought it appropriate to devise some remedy for this, in particular where the...

philosophical naturalism. given that objective moral properties supposedly supervene upon natural properties (such as biological or psychological properties)...

began to appear. In the 1940s, chloroquine replaced quinine as the treatment of both uncomplicated and severe malaria until resistance supervened, first...

"naturalistic dualism": naturalistic because he believes mental states supervene "naturally" on physical systems (such as brains); dualist because he believes...

First, supervening impossibility of performance, which is not due to the fault of either party, does not terminate the contract, contrary to the normal...

forbidden, etc.) supervene upon non-moral predicates, and hence that moral facts involving these predicates (like stealing is wrong) supervene upon non-moral...

neurological states. In one such construction, anomalous monism, mental events supervene on physical events, describing the emergence of mental properties correlated...

to be reversed by naloxone. Hypoxemia, hypertension, pulmonary hypertension, respiratory acidosis and increased intracranial pressure may supervene....

condition being very likely to supervene after accidents involving the condyles of the femur. Children until the age of 3 to 4 have a degree of genu varum...

inability to ascertain exactly when consciousness is lost and when death takes place. "[T]he space of time before death supervenes varies according to the subject...