supervenience.

A relation in which one set of properties cannot differ without differences in another set.

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Words that belong together

• mental supervenience
• supervenience relation
• supervenience on physical properties

On the page

The argument asserts supervenience without claiming that mental properties reduce to physical ones.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal / analytical. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Commonness: uncommon (editorial estimate; not a corpus frequency statistic). Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1; numbered fields keep each relevant meaning separate. Research distinction: SEP verifies no A-difference without B-difference and explicitly warns against equating this with grounding, reduction, or ontological dependence. Writing functions: analysis, conceptual distinction.