When we choose to live with a strong faith in things not seen, not proven, and not guaranteed - we tap into the power of the possible and we supersede the literal and predicable.
John Wooden, the Wizard of Westwood, an icon among basketball coaches, described a leader as one who has to accomplish the difficult task of getting those on the team to believe that "we" supersedes "me".
"We set ourselves targets and, while I know Terry will not be so happy, I'm delighted to say we've superseded those targets.
The first is that our confident belief that we cannot be superseded by machines – because we have consciousness and they cannot have it – may be naive.
So, while we haven't superseded BCS theory yet, we do know that it's worth looking for other materials containing these so-called "charge-density waves" to see if we can smash the −150C barrier, and maybe even find superconductors that work at room temperature.
The "demands of we" always supersede the "meaning of me".
The two shows we did recently superseded all the ratings ESPN had for their Friday night fights.
Even if certain injustices are superseded, we may well stand under obligations to publicly acknowledge the wrongs committed and to provide, say, symbolic reparations toward the victims.
Even if we held the view that the non-identity-problem excluded the possibility of currently living people being (indirect) victims of past injustice or that the historical injustice under consideration has been superseded, we will not wish to deny that past people were wronged.
Though she is not any sort of Christian, believing that too many of the essential doctrines of Christianity are impossible for a decent and educated person to subscribe to, she remains convinced that the religions of the world can't simply be superseded because we don't like them.
The cult of "manly wakefulness" (as opposed to female "beauty sleep"), as Prof Alan Derickson coined it in his 2013 book Dangerously Sleepy, has been superseded – now we see a bit more shuteye and a bit less beep-de-beep as no bad thing.
