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thumb|right|The upper levels on this chart can be considered to supervene on the lower levels.

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  • History
  • Definitions
  • Varieties of supervenience
  • Examples of supervenient properties
  • Value properties
  • Mental properties
  • Computational properties
  • Biological properties
  • Arguments against supervenience-based formulations of physicalism
  • Epiphenomenal ectoplasm
  • The lone ammonium molecule problem
  • Modal status
  • Problem of necessary beings
  • See also
  • Notes
  • External links

thumb|right|The upper levels on this chart can be considered to supervene on the lower levels.

In philosophy, supervenience refers to a relation between sets of properties or sets of facts. X is said to supervene on Y if and only if some difference in Y is necessary for any difference in X to be possible.

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