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  • According to this conception, we supervene upon, contain, or bear some other exotic relation to a distinguishable source of activities which then become attributable to us by a kind of logical courtesy.
  • They observed that when the blood sugar fell to about 0.045 per cent, characteristic symptoms supervened which could be antidoted by glucose, and to a less extent, by laevulose and mannose. John Macleod - Nobel Lecture
  • Such a person cannot escape, unless critical sweats and gentle sleep supervene, and thick and acrid urine be passed, or the disease terminate in an abscess: give pine-fruit and myrrh in a linctus, and further give a very little oxymel to drink; but if they are very thirsty, some barley-water. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
  • Storm supervened after the earthquake.
  • Destruction supervenes when the determined gets the better of the determining by the help of the environment (though in a special sense the word putrefaction is applied to partial destruction, when Meteorology
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  • Furthermore, though this is a logically separable thesis known as representationalism or intentionalism, the phenomenal characters of these conscious states are supposed by these and other authors to supervene on their contents. Externalism About Mental Content
  • After violent screaming she fell into convulsions, which terminated sometimes in fainting, with or without stertor, as in common epilepsy; at other times a tempory insanity supervened; which continued about half an hour, and the fit ceased. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • Then followed an amoeboid and uncertain form, with an increased intensity of action which lasted a few moments, when lassitude supervened, then perfect stillness of the body, which is now globular in form, while the flagellum feebly lashed, and then fell upon and fused with the substance of the sarcode. Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885
  • It is very dangerous to cut off or scarify enlarged uvulae while they and red and large, for inflammations and hemorrhages supervene; but one should try to reduce such swellings by some other means at this season. The Book Of Prognostics
  • As hypoxemia supervenes, the patient becomes comatose and death may result from ventricular fibrillation or asystole.
  • She was working well until illness supervened.
  • For consider an epiphenomenalist substance dualist, who holds the completeness of physics, and that mental properties supervene on physical properties, and yet mental properties are properties of a mental substance.
  • Even when the tort occurs first a subsequent event may supervene, removing the causative potency of the original wrong.
  • Although objects of higher order are based on infima they are not reducible to them; properties of superiora supervene on properties of their inferiora. Salvation Santa
  • The waking of the wood may mean that the slumbrous dream was not real anyway, that daytime reality has now supervened, replacing defiance with pleasant companionship.
  • But if justification can supervene on a belief's deriving from a reliable source, they have justified true belief.
  • These seemings have narrow contents because they supervene on local properties of me and inverted-me.
  • As hypoxemia supervenes, the patient becomes comatose and death may result from ventricular fibrillation or asystole.
  • Now something similar may happen in fracture of the ribs; for in fracture of one or more ribs, in general, if the fractured bones are not driven inward, nor are laid bare, fever rarely supervenes, neither does it often happen that there is haemoptysis, empyema, and suppurating sores, which require treatment with pledgets, nor necrosis of the bones; and in these cases the ordinary regimen is sufficient. On The Articulations
  • Ulceration and gangrene may then supervene and can result in loss of the limb if not treated.
  • Nail punctures resulting in infection frequently cause an infectious lymphangitis and a marked and painful swelling of the legs supervenes. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
  • Nonseparability supposedly arises because the vacuum expectation value of a product of field operators defined at an n-tuple of distinct spacetime points does not supervene on qualitative intrinsic physical properties defined at those n points, together with the spatiotemporal relations among the points. Holism and Nonseparability in Physics
  • It may supervene with infection.
  • When the hypochondriac region is affected with meteorism and borborygmi, should pain of the loins supervene, the bowels get into Aphorisms
  • James was aged 82 years and lived and farmed in Clorane with his sister Maureen until illness supervened.
  • The true tertian comes quickly to a crisis, and is not fatal; but the quintan is the worst of all, for it proves fatal when it precedes an attack of phthisis, and when it supervenes on persons who are already consumptive. Of The Epidemics
  • Only in rare instances do serious complications supervene.
  • Complications can occur if infection supervenes leading to an inflammation of the gall bladder.
  • And the affection is resolved if there be an epistaxis, or if true critical sweats supervene with urine having white, thick, and smooth sediments, or if a deposit take place anywhere; but if it be resolved without these, there will be a relapse of the complaint, or pain in the hips and legs will ensue, with thick sputa, provided the patient be convalescent. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
  • The accumulation was wholly glacial; and probably a lake had supervened on the melting of the great glacier and its recedence, which lake, confined by a frozen moraine, would periodically lose its waters by sudden accessions of heat melting the ice of the latter. Himalayan Journals — Complete
  • These symptoms supervene, not only if ptisan be administered unseasonably, but still more if any other food or drink worse than ptisan be given. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
  • This is because it remains possible that evaluative epistemic facts supervene on naturalistic ones.
  • For it is clearly not in general true that to know whether an object x has a property P one has to know how things stand with respect to the facts on which P supervenes.
  • ‘If lying is wrong, then he will lie,’ has an antecedent whose embedded content is the same as a statement predicating the property on which the speakers moral disapproval supervenes.
  • This is because it remains possible that evaluative epistemic facts supervene on naturalistic ones.
  • Such a person cannot escape, unless critical sweats and gentle sleep supervene, and thick and acrid urine be passed, or the disease terminate in an abscess: give pine-fruit and myrrh in a linctus, and further give a very little oxymel to drink; but if they are very thirsty, some barley-water. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
  • For instance, it has been claimed that events supervene on their participants, or that objects depend on the events in which they partake.
  • Sleep disorders, disorientation, and fatigue may supervene, followed by serious intellectual deterioration, such as the inability to speak, recognize objects, read, or write.
  • It is very dangerous to cut off or scarify enlarged uvulae while they and red and large, for inflammations and hemorrhages supervene; but one should try to reduce such swellings by some other means at this season. The Book Of Prognostics
  • Bronchitis and pneumonia may supervene, resulting in hospital admission and sometimes death.
  • For when a defluxion of cold phlegm takes place on the lungs and heart, the blood is chilled, and the veins, being violently chilled, palpitate in the lungs and heart, and the heart palpitates, so that from this necessity asthma and orthopnoea supervene. On The Sacred Disease
  • If all the atoms within you and in your vicinity have absolutely determinate properties, then the indeterminate mass and shape and volume of you, your brain, and your teeth somehow supervene on the determinate microstructure.
  • For when a defluxion of cold phlegm takes place on the lungs and heart, the blood is chilled, and the veins, being violently chilled, palpitate in the lungs and heart, and the heart palpitates, so that from this necessity asthma and orthopnoea supervene. On The Sacred Disease

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