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superveniencenoun
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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Supervenience
In philosophy, supervenience is an ontological relation that is used to describe cases where the lower-level properties of a system determine its higher level properties. Many people believe that the world is structured in to a kind of hierarchy of properties, where the higher level properties supervene on the lower level properties. According to this type of view, social properties supervene on psychological properties, psychological properties supervene on biological properties, biological properties supervene on chemical properties, etc. That is, the chemical properties of the world determine a distribution of biological properties, those biological properties determine a distribution of psychological properties, and so forth. So, for example, mind-body supervenience holds that "every mental phenomenon must be grounded in, or anchored to, some underlying physical base. This means that mental states can occur only in systems that can have physical properties; namely physical systems." It is useful to know both when supervenience does and does not obtain. For example, the value of a piece of paper money does not supervene on the micro-features of the paper it's made out of, because the value of the money is not just determined by internal features of the paper, but also by a broader distribution of social facts and institutions. The paper alone does not determine the value of the money, so supervenience does not obtain between the value and the paper. Some philosophical problems can be stated in terms of questions about supervenience. For example: do mental properties supervene on neural properties? Do the aesthetic properties of an art object supervene on physical properties of that object?
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of supervenience in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of supervenience in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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