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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
supervene .
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Examples
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Where all, and with equal and simultaneous impulse, strives to move, nothing can move, but chaos is come; where all refuses to move, and therefore stagnates, decay supervenes, which is motion, though a motion downward.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various
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The pain of toothing often begins much earlier than is suspected; and is liable to produce convulsions; which are sometimes relieved, when the gum swells, and becomes inflamed; at other times a diarrhoea supervenes, which is generally esteemed a favourable circumstance, and seems to prevent the convulsions by supplying another means of relieving the pain of dentition by irritative exertion; and a consequent temporary exhaustion of sensorial power.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Yet after an initial flurry of excitement over the Johnson project, his own indolence supervenes.
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Yet after an initial flurry of excitement over the Johnson project, his own indolence supervenes.
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Yet after an initial flurry of excitement over the Johnson project, his own indolence supervenes.
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˜If lying is wrong, then he will lie,™ has an antecedent whose embedded content is the same as a statement predicating the property on which the speaker's moral disapproval supervenes.
Boys in White Suits 2009
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On the other, it is clearly possible to endorse the claim that meaning/content supervenes upon non-semantic, non-normative facts without thereby being committed to reductive naturalism.
The Normativity of Meaning and Content Glüer, Kathrin 2009
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Objects of higher order presuppose founding objects; you can also say that the superius supervenes on its inferiora.
Salvation Santa 2009
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The dream of global governance through international institutions and law is a lovely dream that supervenes, like oil floating upon water, alas, upon the fact of the American hegemonic security guarantee.
The Volokh Conspiracy » They Made a Multilateralism and Called It Peace 2009
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One may think that space is independent of intuition by claiming that it supervenes on the order of substances (which itself is independent of intuition); or one may think that space is independent of intuition by claiming that space is an independently existing entity.
Kant's Views on Space and Time Janiak, Andrew 2009
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