Superdupervenience

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Ontological supervenience that is robustly explainable in a materialistically explainable way. uncountable

Etymology

Blend of super-duper + supervenience, coined by Terence Horgan in a 1993 paper: https://web.archive.org/web/20160307175427/http://thorgan.faculty.arizona.edu/sites/thorgan.faculty.arizona.edu/files/From%20Supervenience%20to%20Superdupervenience-%20Meeting%20the%20Demands%20of%20a%20Material%20World.pdf.

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