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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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