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superdupervenience

superdupervenience noun: ontological supervenience that is robustly explainable in a materialistically explainable way.

Noun

superdupervenience (uncountable)

  1. Ontological supervenience that is robustly explainable in a materialistically explainable way.

Origin of superdupervenience

Blend of super-duper + supervenience, coined by Terence Horgan in a 1993 paper: https://web.archive.org/web/20160307175427/http://thorgan.faculty.arizona.edu/sites/thorgan.faculty.arizona.edu/files/From%20Supervenience%20to%20Superdupervenience-%20Meeting%20the%20Demands%20of%20a%20Material%20World.pdf.

Questions about superdupervenience

What does superdupervenience mean?
Superdupervenience means ontological supervenience that is robustly explainable in a materialistically explainable way.
What part of speech is superdupervenience?
Superdupervenience is a noun.

Words near superdupervenience in the dictionary

  1. superduce
  2. superduct
  3. superduo
  4. superduos
  5. superduper
  6. superdupervenience
  7. superdupervenient
  8. superduplex
  9. superdurable
  10. superduty
  11. superdynamic

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