Concept
Epiphenomenon
Overview
An epiphenomenon (pl. epiphenomena) is a secondary phenomenon that occurs alongside or in parallel to a primary phenomenon. The word has two senses: one that connotes known causation and one that connotes absence of causation or reservation of judgment about it.
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Related ideas
- Falsifiability
- Correlation
- Antibiotic
- Mind
- Metaphor
- Instrumentalism
- James Clerk Maxwell
- Universe
- Causality
- David Lewis (philosopher)
- Connotation
- Phenomenon
- Philosophy of mind
- Electron
- Epiphenomenalism
- Zenon Pylyshyn
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of metaphysics.