Sentence examples for supervenes from inspiring English sources

The design "supervenes" upon the physical system.

Moreover, it supervenes on other properties.

This second assumption amounts to a sense in which being supervenes on truth: circumstances cannot differ with respect to what there is without differing with respect to what is true.

For example, Segal (2000) rejected the intuitions that are usually associated with the Twin-Earth cases by arguing that meaning (and content in general) "locally supervenes" on a subject's intrinsic physical properties.

Likewise, any version of functionalism or physicalism implies that the mental supervenes on, respectively, functional organization and physical makeup.

According to some, phenomenal consciousness supervenes on (non-narrow) content, so if Swampman lacks content he must also lack phenomenal consciousness on this view (see esp. Dretske 1995).

Talk of God supervenes on the commitment to the practice rather than being a justification for it.

To use the language of supervenience, just as the global features of the picture supervene on the dots, so too everything supervenes on the physical, if physicalism is true.

Supervenience physicalism does not entail sub-set realization physicalism since the fact that a property G supervenes on a property F does not entail anything about their causal powers.

(The point here is a quite general one: if Thales says that everything is water, or Up-to-Date-Thales says everything supervenes on water, we don't understand what he says unless he says something about what water is. The physicalist is in the same position).

Individualism or internalism with respect to a property K says that whether a creature has K or not supervenes on its intrinsic properties only.