epiphenomenon
noun
a secondary or additional symptom or complication arising during the course of a disease.
epiphenomenal
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a word derived from
epiphenomenon.
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
But I understand why even non-religious folk balk at hard-core materialism, which depicts consciousness as an epiphenomenal fluke.
From Scientific American ● May 6, 2018
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
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 C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd) Morgan
