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What does supervenient mean?

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Adjective
  1. (logic) In a relationship with another set such that membership in the other set implies membership in the present set
  2. Supervening; occurring subsequently; coming after something, especially when not causally connected.
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Why is something supervenient no addition to being?
If mental properties are supervenient on physical properties, people with identical bodies will also have identical minds.
Nonetheless, we may well take this value, like all value, to be supervenient on something.
The possible worlds component of the model would represent beliefs about the supervenience base, while the norms or plans would be needed to represent a person's beliefs involving the supervenient moral properties.
Colors, he says, are supervenient on the dispositions to look to have the colors.
One way to establish that would be to show that freedom of speech is essential to the possibility of human dignity, and that human dignity is supervenient on human agency.

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