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How to use supervene in a sentence

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Even when the tort occurs first a subsequent event may supervene, removing the causative potency of the original wrong.
But if justification can supervene on a belief's deriving from a reliable source, they have justified true belief.
These seemings have narrow contents because they supervene on local properties of me and inverted-me.
Bronchitis and pneumonia may supervene, resulting in hospital admission and sometimes death.
For instance, it has been claimed that events supervene on their participants, or that objects depend on the events in which they partake.
Ulceration and gangrene may then supervene and can result in loss of the limb if not treated.
This is because it remains possible that evaluative epistemic facts supervene on naturalistic ones.
The drink does not supervene over his underlying subnormality.
Sleep disorders, disorientation, and fatigue may supervene, followed by serious intellectual deterioration, such as the inability to speak, recognize objects, read, or write.
When credible evidence stands against denial, the employer's options may be limited and its obligations to the work force may have to supervene over the interests of an otherwise valued employee.
If this inverted spectrum hypothesis is correct, then qualia do not supervene on representational properties, and therefore representationalism is false.
Note that both O'Connor and Humphreys resist Kim's two-stage argument here at this first stage, since they deny that emergent properties will synchronically supervene.
Among the common variants are those that take conscious reality to supervene on the physical, be composed of the physical, or be realized by the physical.
If, however, these are each genuine possibilities, facts about the identity of persons over time do not supervene upon any physical or psychological facts.
Suppose psychological states supervene on physical states.
Humeans could respond to this result by either giving up Centring or abandoning the idea that the most fundamental facts do not supervene on less fundamental facts.
It is widely believed that Twin-Earth-style thought experiments show that the contents of a person's thoughts fail to supervene on her intrinsic properties.
Examples from Classical Literature
The world awoke to a new reality in which the need to punish systematic human rights abuses can supervene sovereignty in international law.
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