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supervene

British pronunciation/sˈuːpəvˌiːn/
American pronunciation/sˈuːpɚvˌiːn/
to supervene
[VERB]
MAIN VERB
1

take place as an additional or unexpected development

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1But if a divine conceptualist was OK with that then presumably they could also be OK with some further entities, supervening on these not themselves divine, divine ideas, and so I’m wondering if a divine conceptualist being comfortable with having things which are co-eternal with God and be it dependent on Him, could just have kind of the properly abstract platonic objects supervening on divine thoughts in some such way that a lot of the problems about exemplification and the other things you’re bringing out, weren’t too bad.
2So, if we have some old-fashioned notion that death is natural, it'll come, society absorbs death all the time, family members absorb death all the time, that we can just kind of let nature take its course, well, again, we've supervened in nature in too many ways by now.
3But if a divine conceptualist was OK with that then presumably they could also be OK with some further entities, supervening on these not themselves divine, divine ideas, and so I’m wondering if a divine conceptualist being comfortable with having things which are co-eternal with God and be it dependent on Him, could just have kind of the properly abstract platonic objects supervening on divine thoughts in some such way that a lot of the problems about exemplification and the other things you’re bringing out, weren’t too bad.
4Ah we know, for example, that the states uh are going to decide for themselves how to do districts, how to conduct elections, what the voter qualifications are going to be, subject to uh Congress' uh ability to pass supervening legislation regarding the governance of of federal elections.
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