supervenient
Britishadjective
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supervening
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philosophy (of a property) inseparable from the other properties of something. Two objects may be identical except that one is red and the other not, but they cannot be identical except that one is beautiful and the other not; beauty is thus a supervenient property
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The original idea is laid down in its simple purity, and all the supervenient conceptions are spread over it, "stratum super stratum," as they happen to be formed.
From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Samuel Johnson
Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
To designate, by means of a special law, the official who shall act as President of the Republic in case of death, resignation, removal, or supervenient inability of the President and Vice-President.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 4 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
Chrysippus replied by denying not only the reality of this supervenient force said to be inherent in the soul, but also the reality of all that Aristotle called automatic or spontaneous agency generally.
From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain
It makes no difference to reality itself; it is supervenient, inert, static, a reflexion merely.
From Pragmatism by William James
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