epiphaenomenon

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A form of epiphenomenon — An activity, process, or state that is the result of another; a by-product, a consequence.

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Meanings

nounepiphaenomenon (plural epiphaenomena)

plural epiphaenomena

  1. rareRare form of epiphenomenon.

    Is subjectivity a part of the ontological furnishings of the world, or is it nothing but an epiphaenomenon?

    2006, Roberta De Monticelli, “Essential Individuality: On the Nature of a Person”, in Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, editor, Logos of Phenomenology and Phenomenology of The Logos. Book Two: The Human Condition in-the-Unity-of-Everything-there-is-alive. Individuation, Self, Person, Self-determination, Freedom, Necessity, Springer, →ISBN, page 173
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    For, from my most careful observation, such as it is, I have concluded, that a purely sympathetic disease of any part, has no accedent symptoms, no Epiphaenomena, no Epigenomena;

    1825, Walter Vaughan, “Kinds of Headach”, in An Essay on Headachs, and on Their Cure, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], page 97

    Indeed, the fundamental difference between the Latin and Orthodox churches must be looked for not in the minds of the theologians, but in the hearts of the people; the theological explanations of it are epiphaenomena rather than causes.[…]In fact, the epiphaenomena may be damped quickly or they may last for months and even years.

    1927–1948, George Sarton, Introduction to the History of Science, published 1967, pages 53 and 216

    One thing that is taken for granted by almost all contemporary ‘theorists’ of secularization is that religion is an epiphaenomenon.

    1977, Thomas Luckmann, The Annual Review of the Social Sciences of Religion, page 16

    But, to tell the truth, Russian imperialism has only played, so to speak, the part of an epiphaenomenon in this affair.

    1983, Omar Osman Rabeh, The Somali Nation: Historical Considerations and Issues for the Future, page 5

    But in the detection of the subtle “vibrations” of the psycho-social magma that articulate it into the forms and structures of the cultural epiphaenomena, one can sense an element of almost passionate sensual and aesthetic appreciation—just as one does, incidentally, in certain quasi-musical scientific hypotheses of our “string-theory” cosmologists.

    2002, Arte y ciencia: XXIV Coloquio Internacional de Historia del Arte, page 223
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