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Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind
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RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind
(September 8, 2014 at 7:42 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Trans = across, beyond
Scend = climb

My point is that supervened properties have a reality unique to the mechanism on which they supervene, i.e. they go beyond those mechanisms. I couldn't think of a more perfect word to express my idea.

I don't think they go beyond anything or climb anywhere. It's just that there is multiple ways of getting the samething. For example, I can drive multiple routes to Las Vegas. That doesn't mean Las Vegas is some transcended place.

If you want to a better word, how about pluraemanio.
plura = many
emanio = to flow out, spread / arise, emanate, originate.

And yes, I did just make it up. However, I provided the definition.
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Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind - by bennyboy - September 5, 2014 at 7:46 pm
RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind - by pocaracas - September 7, 2014 at 4:10 pm
RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind - by bennyboy - September 7, 2014 at 7:10 pm
RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind - by pocaracas - September 8, 2014 at 6:51 am
RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind - by Angrboda - September 7, 2014 at 7:06 pm
RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind - by bennyboy - September 7, 2014 at 7:35 pm
RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind - by Diablo - September 8, 2014 at 7:04 am
RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind - by bennyboy - September 8, 2014 at 6:49 pm
RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind - by pocaracas - September 8, 2014 at 7:56 pm
RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind - by bennyboy - September 8, 2014 at 8:07 pm
RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind - by Mudhammam - September 8, 2014 at 8:18 pm
RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind - by bennyboy - September 8, 2014 at 9:43 pm
RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind - by Mudhammam - September 14, 2014 at 12:13 am
RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind - by bennyboy - September 14, 2014 at 2:06 am
RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind - by Mudhammam - September 14, 2014 at 9:49 am
RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind - by bennyboy - September 14, 2014 at 8:49 pm
RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind - by Mudhammam - September 14, 2014 at 10:00 pm
RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind - by Diablo - September 8, 2014 at 6:59 pm
RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind - by bennyboy - September 8, 2014 at 7:42 pm
RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind - by Surgenator - September 15, 2014 at 12:15 am
RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind - by bennyboy - September 15, 2014 at 7:45 pm
RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind - by Surgenator - September 15, 2014 at 8:59 pm
RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind - by pocaracas - September 8, 2014 at 8:30 pm
RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind - by genkaus - September 13, 2014 at 9:25 pm
RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind - by bennyboy - September 14, 2014 at 9:01 pm
RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind - by The Grand Nudger - September 14, 2014 at 10:45 pm

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