supervene
verb (used without object)
to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on orupon ).
supervenience
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a word derived from
supervene.
Example Sentences
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The mere “representation” does not include the further supervenience of consciousness: it represents, but it is not as yet necessary that we should also be conscious that there is representation.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
But I would look for a remedy not to brute convulsions, but to the natural supervenience of a more able sovereign.
From Prince Otto, a Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson
But I would look for a remedy not to brute convulsions, but to the natural supervenience of a more able sovereign.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
