Sentence examples for supervene directly from inspiring English sources
Non-structural states of affairs supervene directly on their atomic conjuncts.[46] However, things are not in general quite so straightforward for structural states of affairs.
An anthropologist from another world who wanted to know whether the sentence is true would set about investigating a set of sociological facts; from the anthropologist's perspective, facts about the monetary value of gold are mind-dependent "only in the sense that they supervene directly on facts about our minds … [but] this has no tendency to undermine their objectivity" (302).
Suppose we found out that facts about the distribution of gases on the moons of Jupiter supervened directly on facts about our minds.
In its second form, 'acquaintance' of states of affairs involves an insight directly, without supervening on acquaintance, of any reality.
Recall that the noetic quality of a mystical experience can come from an acquaintance of states of affairs involving an insight directly, without supervening on acquaintance of any reality (see Section 1.1, clause (5)).
Senator Morse assured Senator Goldwater otherwise that "the State law would supervene". Ibid.
The high-level properties (dogness) supervene the low-level properties (pixels).
After a prolonged bout of drunkenness, however, severe withdrawal phenomena often supervene.
The products of the mind supervene the mechanisms of the brain.
The humanities can be informed by the cognitive sciences even as they supervene them.
