epiphenomenal
- 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
Like Eben Moglen before me, I feel that dismissing that persona as epiphenomenal or distracting in relation to the overall free software movement would be a grievous mistake.
From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Williams, Sam
