But the supervenient moral questions are still controversial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-11-01] Reference

“Space: An abstract system of non-supervenient relations.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Structural Realism] Reference

But all of them involve three elements: a set of supervenient entities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Normativity of Meaning and Content] Reference

Nonetheless, we may well take this value, like all value, to be supervenient on something.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Value] Reference

Mental characteristics are in some sense dependent, or supervenient, on physical characteristics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Supervenience] Reference

Perhaps he means to say that the quality of having huge breasts is supervenient on, but not constitutive of, soul mateness.    From Wordnik.com.  [True Romance] Reference

He claims that the supervenient relations between mental and physical predicates that he envisages are of a ceteris paribus nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalous Monism] Reference

The interpretation of entangled states in quantum mechanics in terms of strongly non-supervenient relations goes back to Cleland (1984).    From Wordnik.com.  [Structural Realism] Reference

The crucial claim, plainly, is that moral facts are to be identified with (or treated as supervenient upon) certain kinds of natural facts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturalism in Legal Philosophy] Reference

State Separability: The state assigned to a compound physical system at any time is supervenient on the states then assigned to its component subsystems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holism and Nonseparability in Physics] Reference

Kass is surely right to insist that we recognize that our morally significant mental capacities are embodied, concrete, supervenient on a biological base.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skyhooks and Tuned Decks and Bloombast (Oh My!)] Reference

This brings out the subtle but important point that the question whether some value is derivative is distinct from the question whether it is supervenient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Value] Reference

Properties that undergo fusion do not realize the i+1 property instance, as supervenient, realized properties would be co-present with subvenient properties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emergent Properties] Reference

He pointed out that Paull and Sider include an extrinsic property M in the supervenient set A, but only intrinsic properties P and Q in the subvenient or base set B.    From Wordnik.com.  [Supervenience] Reference

Strong Nonseparability: Some physical process occupying a region R of spacetime is not supervenient upon an assignment of qualitative intrinsic physical properties at points of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holism and Nonseparability in Physics] Reference

This criticism of divine command theory is related to another, generally accepted, claim about moral, normative facts: as well as being objective and non-natural they are supervenient on other facts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Arguments for the Existence of God] Reference

That I strongly suspect that non-darwinian (and non-neodarwinian) mechanisms play a supervenient role in evolution doesn't make me a religious fundamentalist, a "Wedgie," a Creationist or even a heretic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confirmation Bias and ID] Reference

The qualitative intrinsic physical properties of a compound system are supervenient on those of its spatially separated component systems together with the spatial relations among these component systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holism and Nonseparability in Physics] Reference

The possible worlds component of the model would represent beliefs about the supervenience base, while the norms would be needed to represent a person's beliefs involving the supervenient moral properties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boys in White Suits] Reference

But Klagge was clearly right that Paull and Sider's example involves a supervenient set A that contains an extrinsic property and a subvenient set B that contains only intrinsic properties, and he was right that this is important.    From Wordnik.com.  [Supervenience] Reference

Similarly, advocates of OSR such as Esfeld, French and Ladyman emphasise that the non-supervenient relations implied by quantum entanglement undermine the ontological priority conferred on individuals in most traditional metaphysics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Structural Realism] Reference

In Newtonian spacetime, the kinematical behavior of a system of point particles under the action of finite forces is supervenient upon ascriptions of particular values of position and momentum to the particles along their trajectories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holism and Nonseparability in Physics] Reference

The mere fact that every particular has a physical property does not rule out the possibility that some particulars also have non-supervenient mental properties, i.e. mental properties that are only contingently related to the physical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physicalism] Reference

However, even if ˜strong overdetermination™ by two ontologically independent causes is so ruled out, this does not necessarily preclude ˜weak overdetermination™ by both a physical cause and a metaphysically supervenient non-physical cause.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturalism] Reference

But this reply is not available to the people Russell was arguing against, namely G.E. Moore and his meta-ethical disciples, who took badness to be a non-natural property supervenient on, but not identical with, such qualities as cruelty and suffering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russell's Moral Philosophy] Reference

Kim suggests that “equivalence seems to fail, through the failure of implication from global to strong supervenience, only when extrinsic properties are present in the supervenient set but disallowed from the subvenient base” (1993, 170; see also McLaughlin 1997a, 215).    From Wordnik.com.  [Supervenience] Reference

It makes no difference to reality itself; it is supervenient, inert, static, a reflexion merely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pragmatism] Reference

For, though we be the children of light, yet our light hath so much darkness, as there must be a supervenient and accessory light of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning] Reference

The masters of rhetorick direct, that the most forcible arguments be produced in the latter part of an oration, lest they should be effaced or perplexed by supervenient images.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II] Reference

Intellect to man; -- that it can be other than the duty of a good citizen to use his god-given intellect in investigating prevenient grace, supervenient moonshine, or the color of the Bishop's nightmare, if that happened to turn up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latter-Day Pamphlets] Reference

“supervenient” on certain nonevaluative features of the thing that has value.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Value] Reference

I suppose the question is whether moral behavior is psychophysically supervenient upon neurobiology (well, yes, it is) or whether morality itself is (no, I don’t think so).    From Wordnik.com.  [And the Moral Law Within] Reference

"prevenient grace" everywhere, and so boarding and lodging our poor souls upon supervenient moonshine everywhere, for centuries long; by our sordid stupidities and our idle babblings; through faith in the divine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latter-Day Pamphlets] Reference

The upshot is that strong global and strong individual supervenience come apart “only when extrinsic properties are present in the supervenient set but disallowed from the subvenient base,” as Kim and others predicted (see.    From Wordnik.com.  [Supervenience] Reference

We can tweak it and improve our methods of belief formation, but we can’t ultimately escape the fact that we have a certain sort of mind — and this would be true even if we were disembodied souls rather than supervenient on physical brains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unpersuasive Arguments for Free Will] Reference

˜non-supervenient™ properties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modal Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics] Reference