epiphenomenonn.

/ˌɛpɪfɪˈnɒmɪnən/

Forms: Plural epiphenomena.

Etymology: < epi- prefix + phenomenon n.

Pathology.

1. Something that appears in addition; a secondary symptom. Also transferred.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > symptom > [noun] > secondary symptom

epiphenomenon1874

the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] > thing or material object > cognizable by the senses or phenomenon > subsidiary phenomenon

epiphenomenon1882

1706 in Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.)

1731–1800 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.

1874 W. H. Van Buren & E. L. Keyes Pract. Treat. Surg. Dis. Genito-urinary Organs 93 Stricture is only an epiphenomenon, and not the disease itself.

1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. i. iii. 104 Fever is always secondary to some specific or other disease of which it is a mere epiphenomenon or symptom.

1882 Nature 26 Oct. 640/1 Trombes and tornadoes are short epiphenomena of cyclones.

2. Psychology. Applied to consciousness regarded as a by-product of the material activities of the brain and nerve-system.

ΚΠ

1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. v. 129 But this would be a quite autonomous chain of occurrences, and whatever mind went with it would be there only as an ‘epiphenomenon’, an inert spectator.

1899 J. Ward Naturalism & Agnosticism II. 37 The newly coined phrase epiphenomenon (or, as the Germans say, Begleiterscheinung).

1913 J. M. Baldwin Hist. Psychol. II. iv. 60 This charge [of materialism] is frankly accepted..by those, such as Maudsley, who accept the ‘epiphenomenon’ theory of consciousness; to them consciousness is merely a by-product, a spark thrown off by the engine, the brain.

1952 W. J. H. Sprott Social Psychol. 208 Marxists have never taken ideas as mere epi-phenomena.

1965 H. Kuhlenbeck in J. R. Smythies Brain & Mind 156 Yet, in this respect, consciousness remains either an ‘epiphenomenon’ or a parallel, not ‘causally’ involved phenomenon... The term ‘epiphenomenon’ stresses the ‘vectorial’ or one-way, open transformation from public physical space-time into private perceptual space-time.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	epiphenomenon
释义	epiphenomenonn. /ˌɛpɪfɪˈnɒmɪnən/ Forms: Plural epiphenomena. Etymology: < epi- prefix + phenomenon n. Pathology. 1. Something that appears in addition; a secondary symptom. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > symptom > [noun] > secondary symptom epiphenomenon1874 the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] > thing or material object > cognizable by the senses or phenomenon > subsidiary phenomenon epiphenomenon1882 1706 in Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) 1731–1800 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. 1874 W. H. Van Buren & E. L. Keyes Pract. Treat. Surg. Dis. Genito-urinary Organs 93 Stricture is only an epiphenomenon, and not the disease itself. 1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. i. iii. 104 Fever is always secondary to some specific or other disease of which it is a mere epiphenomenon or symptom. 1882 Nature 26 Oct. 640/1 Trombes and tornadoes are short epiphenomena of cyclones. 2. Psychology. Applied to consciousness regarded as a by-product of the material activities of the brain and nerve-system. ΚΠ 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. v. 129 But this would be a quite autonomous chain of occurrences, and whatever mind went with it would be there only as an ‘epiphenomenon’, an inert spectator. 1899 J. Ward Naturalism & Agnosticism II. 37 The newly coined phrase epiphenomenon (or, as the Germans say, Begleiterscheinung). 1913 J. M. Baldwin Hist. Psychol. II. iv. 60 This charge [of materialism] is frankly accepted..by those, such as Maudsley, who accept the ‘epiphenomenon’ theory of consciousness; to them consciousness is merely a by-product, a spark thrown off by the engine, the brain. 1952 W. J. H. Sprott Social Psychol. 208 Marxists have never taken ideas as mere epi-phenomena. 1965 H. Kuhlenbeck in J. R. Smythies Brain & Mind 156 Yet, in this respect, consciousness remains either an ‘epiphenomenon’ or a parallel, not ‘causally’ involved phenomenon... The term ‘epiphenomenon’ stresses the ‘vectorial’ or one-way, open transformation from public physical space-time into private perceptual space-time. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1706
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