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Definition of Epiphenomenal
1. Adjective. Being of secondary consequence to a causal chain of processes, but playing no causal role in the process of interest.Huettel, ''Function Magnetic Imaging'', 2004. ¹
2. Adjective. (philosophy psychology) Of or pertaining to a mental process which occurs only as an incidental effect of electrical or chemical activity in the brain or nervous system. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Epiphenomenal
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epiphenomenal
Literary usage of Epiphenomenal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Naturalism and Agnosticism: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the by James Ward (1903)
"But the ' real world' from which it starts is epiphenomenal. How then does it
get to its ' real world' of matter in motion, and, having got there, ..."
2. The New Realism: Coöperative Studies in Philosophy by Edwin Bissell Holt (1912)
"Yet, once more, it was only by assuming that these same permanent possibilities
or epiphenomenal shadows were not mere possibilities or shadows at all, ..."
3. The New Realism: Coöperative Studies in Philosophy by Edwin Bissell Holt, Walter Taylor Marvin, William Pepperell Montague, Ralph Barton Perry, Walter B. Pitkin, Edward Gleason Spaulding (1912)
"Yet, once more, it was only by assuming that these same permanent possibilities
or epiphenomenal shadows were not mere possibilities or shadows at all, ..."
4. Body and Mind; a History and a Defence of Animism: A History and a Defence by William McDougall (1920)
"The consciousness of any moment is a passive conjunction of " epiphenomenal "
elements. Huxley and others have illustrated this doctrine by likening this ..."
5. Philosophy of History: An Introduction to the Philosophical Study of Politics by Alfred Henry Lloyd (1899)
"Consciousness is intrinsic to life; it is not under any conditions epiphenomenal.
To make consciousness a sudden appearance in the evolution-series is to ..."
6. The Milroy Lectures on Epidemic Disease in England: The Evidence of by William Heaton Hamer (1906)
"The organism possibly undergoes change, but it must be insignificant in comparison
with the epiphenomenal change in the reaction between parasite and host. ..."
7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"... have been in the directions which from the beginning I have followed, though
my advocacy and example have doubtless been epiphenomenal. ..."
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