superdupervenience

noun

Ontological supervenience that is robustly explainable in a materialistically explainable way.

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Meanings

nounsuperdupervenience (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesOntological supervenience that is robustly explainable in a materialistically explainable way.

Origin

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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superdupervenience. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/superdupervenience

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“superdupervenience.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/superdupervenience. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “superdupervenience,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/superdupervenience.

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