The system is said to "supervene" (I'm not making this up) on its components causing the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Nor does old age supervene in the unicellular organisms. From Wordnik.com. [Disease and Its Causes] Reference
Stupor and unconsciousness may supervene in severe cases. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
Hiccup and redness of the eyes, when they supervene on vomiting, are bad. From Wordnik.com. [Aphorisms] Reference
When the brain is severely wounded, fever and vomiting of bile necessarily supervene. From Wordnik.com. [Aphorisms] Reference
In this way, ˜supervene™ is different from terms like ˜cause,™ ˜freedom,™ or. From Wordnik.com. [Supervenience] Reference
And that domestic events supervene can disqualify America's own when they die overseas. From Wordnik.com. [A Festival Or Homework?] Reference
The statute of limitation, common feelings of humanity, will supervene for his benefit. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
Acute traumatic iritis or irido-cyclitis may supervene four or five days after the injury. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
This claim implies that intentional properties supervene on neurophysiological properties. From Wordnik.com. [Supervenience] Reference
Should the foot become hot, and lameness supervene, then tension should at once be relaxed. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
Clearly RF does not supervene on the qualitative intrinsic physical properties of these parts. From Wordnik.com. [Holism and Nonseparability in Physics] Reference
A time soon comes when the brain cells fail to respond to the demand, and sleep must supervene. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Persons who consult the tea-leaves too frequently often find this muddled state of things to supervene. From Wordnik.com. [Tea-Cup Reading and Fortune-Telling by Tea Leaves, by a Highland Seer] Reference
The length of the adhesions which supervene upon pleuritis gives evidence of the extent of these motions. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Sounds thus are not identical with and do not supervene upon the waves, since waves travel (Pasnau 1999). From Wordnik.com. [Auditory Perception] Reference
For example, while the mental may supervene on the physical, the physical does not supervene on the mental. From Wordnik.com. [Supervenience] Reference
Troubles of some sort are sure to supervene; the man who succeeds is he who can anticipate, and so remedy them. From Wordnik.com. [Amateur Fish Culture] Reference
We, consequently, agree that in the sacraments there must necessarily supervene a heavenly, a supernatural change. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
Further, if weight is supported entirely by the unaffected member, laminitis may supervene if a sling is not used. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
As the fits increase in number, the intellect deteriorates and chronic dementia or delusional insanity may supervene. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
Let a sudden fit of illness supervene and see how quickly these apparently healthy men succumb and are swept away by it. From Wordnik.com. [Manhood Perfectly Restored Prof. Jean Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons as a Quick, Painless, and Certain Cure for Impotence, Etc.] Reference
Culminating point of all manoeuvres -- Quick decision required or "Position Warfare" will supervene -- Second Battle of the. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918] Reference
Occasionally catarrhal affections of the air passages, croup or pulmonary inflammation supervene, and the patient succumbs. From Wordnik.com. [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference
A second way to see that supervenience is not an ontological priority relation is to see that A-properties can supervene on. From Wordnik.com. [Supervenience] Reference
It has also been claimed that modal truths supervene on non-modal ones, and that general truths supervene on particular truths. From Wordnik.com. [Supervenience] Reference
When the hypochondriac region is affected with meteorism and borborygmi, should pain of the loins supervene, the bowels get into. From Wordnik.com. [Aphorisms] Reference
For the part becomes inflamed when rigor and throbbing supervene; for ulcers then get inflamed when suppuration is about to form. From Wordnik.com. [On Ulcers] Reference
Also, the surface areas of perfect spheres supervene with metaphysical necessity on their volumes (and vice versa) (Lombard 1986). From Wordnik.com. [Supervenience] Reference
It is to be expected that a person with such an expectoration shall die on the fourteenth day, unless something favorable supervene. From Wordnik.com. [The Book Of Prognostics] Reference
The properties that the forgery is guaranteed to share with the original are those that supervene upon its microphysical properties. From Wordnik.com. [Supervenience] Reference
And if you reduce them, convulsions usually supervene; and, if not reduced, acute bilious fevers come on, with singultus and mortification. From Wordnik.com. [On Fractures] Reference
In all cases whatever, bilious discharges cease if deafness supervenes, and in all cases deafness ceases when bilious discharges supervene. From Wordnik.com. [Aphorisms] Reference
To begin with, all its evils arise from the relaxing of the vessels of the lungs, so that these swell, and the excess of blood causes inflammatory action to supervene. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
In autumn the weather soon cools off, drier conditions supervene, and living again becomes a pleasure in one of the best and healthiest climates to be met with anywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Fruits of Queensland] Reference
A synthetic vision of personality must supervene upon the dissection, and the emotional interest in character and action must subsist alongside of the intellectual interest. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
Women are seldom afflicted with varicose veins, with haemorrhoids, or with bleeding at the nose, and, if any of these maladies supervene, the menses are imperfectly discharged. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
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