Meanings
comparative more epiphenomenalistically · superlative most epiphenomenalistically
- In terms of, or by means of, epiphenomenalism.
Professor Piatt commended the paper as a whole and emphasized the fact that in Nietzsche we have much of our psychological doctrine of values, with an essential difference, i.e., the will to power is idealistically rather than epiphenomenalistically interpreted.
1927, A. Cornelius Benjamin, “The Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Western Division of the American Philosophical Association”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 24, number 11, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 297
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁ep-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁éps
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁épi
- Proto-Hellenic*epí
- Ancient Greekἐπί (epí)
- Ancient Greekἐπῐ- (epĭ-)
- Englishepi-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰh₂nyéti
- Proto-Hellenic*pʰáňňō
- Ancient Greekφαίνω (phaínō)
- Ancient Greekφαινόμενον (phainómenon)
- Late Latinphaenomenon
- Englishphenomenon
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Ancient Greekφαινόμενον (phainómenon)
- Frenchphénomène
- Frenchphénoména
- Englishphenomenal
- Englishepiphenomenal
- Englishepiphenomenalistic
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishepiphenomenalistically
From epiphenomenalistic + -ally.
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