Usually means: Dependence of higher properties on lower.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. supervenience: Merriam-Webster
  2. supervenience: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Supervenience, supervenience: Wordnik
  4. supervenience: Wiktionary
  5. supervenience: Dictionary.com
  6. Supervenience: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. supervenience: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Philosophy of Mind (No longer online)

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  1. supervenience: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. supervenience: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. supervenience: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)
  2. supervenience: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (supervenience)

noun:  (philosophy) The state or quality of being supervenient, of being in a dependency relationship such that an object with the supervened properties must also have the supervening properties.

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