Example Sentences

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“This is provocation in an epiphenomenal way: creating spaces of perception, of resonance, of seeing. That is the provocation that is actually interesting.”

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2021

Culture becomes epiphenomenal, a reflection of underlying social relations.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 19, 2019

There is a tendency to think of art as epiphenomenal to the “real” world, as a second-order register in which we may occasionally find signs of more important things, like politics and struggle and revolution.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2018

You aren’t thinking about Exodus, which Clune dispatches in a few pages; the game retreats from the narrative, epiphenomenal to the emotional dynamic.

From Slate • Sep. 11, 2015

That means that the cognitive relation really counts—that it is not merely an epiphenomenal accompaniment of changes which would be precisely the same if it were absent.

From Spencer's Philosophy of Science The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum 7 November, 1913 by Morgan, C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd)