supervene - use in sentences

Preposition: on

  • property: Or, perhaps, social properties supervene on the properties of individuals.
  • one: It has also been claimed that modal truths supervene on non-modal ones, and that general truths supervene on particular truths.

Object

  • incapacity: However, the supervening mental incapacity of the donor of the power automatically revoked that power.
  • fault: Hence we have taken the Law Commissionâs recommendations on omissions and supervening fault, and included them in our draft Bill.

Preposition: with

  • necessity: First, on the assumption that there are negative properties, every property F will supervene with logical necessity on its complement not- F.

Modifying Another Word

  • globally: This definition guarantees that A globally supervenes on B.
  • not: But being a sibling does not supervene on being a brother.
  • strongly: It follows that B -properties fail to strongly supervene on A -properties.

Preposition: upon

  • concept: It follows that causality does not supervene upon the non-causal concepts, including lawhood.

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