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supervene

verb arise, be subsequent, bechance, befall, come to pass, crop up, ensue, eventuate, follow, happen, issue, occur, result, spring up, succeed, take place

See also: ensue, follow, succeed

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Some independent characterization of evidence is needed, one that would explain why we should believe that one's evidence supervenes upon one's mental states and depends upon nothing further ('Mentalism') and the further claim that one's ultimate evidence consists of experiences ('Experientialism').

Trent Dougherty, ed.: Evidentialism and its Discontents

No, says Merricks, because it is incredible that whether the atoms-minus compose a conscious being supervenes on whether those atoms are located next to atoms arranged left-index-fingerwise.

Trenton Merricks, Objects and Persons

being conscious not only supervenes on microphysical doings,

Merricks on whether being conscious is intrinsic

But if sortal properties supervene on microphysical properties and relations, then it seems that anything having the same microphysical structure as Socrates must be a human being as well.

Supervenience and co-location

Other cases, for Instance those in which the chances are identified with counterfactual relative frequencies of one or another sort, will suffer the same fate so long as the truth values of the counterfactuals describing those relative frequencies themselves supervene on w's history.

What chances could not be

The second possibility is that the present chances supervene on the whole history of the world, past, present and future.

The big bad bug: what are the Humean's chances?

By contrast, Richard Swinburne maintains that telling the history of the world requires us to include mental events, which are neither identical to nor supervene on physical events.

Swinburne, Richard. Mind, Brain, and Free Will

3) More importantly for our purposes, if "depends on" means "supervenes on", this definition renders the first thesis of MS trivial, making it amount to no more than the vacuous claim that an object's properties that supervene on its atoms (because they supervene on its parts), supervene on its atoms.

Against the doctrine of microphysical supervenience

Belot identifies three attractive features in an account of geometrical possibility: An account is grounded if it implies that geometric possibility supervenes on the actual material configuration; it is ambitious if it recognizes all the qualitatively distinct possibilities substantivalism does (for example, it recognizes many worlds containing only a single motionless particle, differing on the structure of the surrounding empty space); it is metric if it says that the geometrical features of material objects are exhausted by their distance relations.

Belot, Gordon. Geometric Possibility

Does that mean morally aesthetic properties supervene on a base of supervenient properties?

ETHICS, EVIL, AND FICTION

One way that matters of chance might supervene on matters of non-chance is through Humean supervenience, the view that all supervenes on local matters of particular fact.

Undermining and admissibility

12) renders scientific naturalism an extreme form of physicalism on which Quine himself fails to be a scientific naturalist (owing to his endorsement of mathematicalia which do not supervene on the physical).