epiphenomenon


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a secondary phenomenon that is a by-product of another phenomenon

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In this case, instead of saying that the world is composed of matter, from which emerges an epiphenomenon of intelligence, we can turn that paradigm on its head.
For example, dividing the economic structure of a society into two sectors, the centre and the periphery, the epiphenomenon approach describes ethnicity as something, which has gained prominence because of an uneven economy or economic exploitation.
A major strength of Smith's study, on the other hand, is that he seriously considers the more popular psychological trends--from eighteenth-century "animal magnetism" to pop psychology in post-Soviet Russia--to show that academic psychology itself was more than an epiphenomenon within the ivory tower.
DeBoer, in turn: mocked the notion of rising anti-Semitism in Europe; implied that it wasn't real; called for a higher evidentiary standard to prove it; downplayed it as a mere epiphenomenon of American foreign policy; and defocused Jews while centering Muslims as authentic victims of racism.
Previous work assumed that conscious thought was merely an epiphenomenon; Churchland joined many colleagues in adopting that stance.
In adult patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder who are thought to have comorbid attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, the symptoms of inattention, forgetfulness, and impaired executive function might actually be an epiphenomenon of OCD rather than a manifestation of ADHD, a study has shown.
So, this process, although a good one, was merely an epiphenomenon of the free trade globalization.
Where is that epiphenomenon we call the human individual?
It reflects quantum brain biology perspectives and sees consciousness not as it is generally regarded, as an epiphenomenon of the brain.
Moore in his latest book, The War on Heresy, argues persuasively that heresy itself was not an epiphenomenon of the High and Late Middle Ages.
Recanati distinguishes between cases where the background existential claim is grounded in a purely general way and cases where the "grounds for making the judgment are singular." IEM is an epiphenomenon of thetic experience and of the consequential fact that the object of an IEM singular thought grounded by such an experience has to be contributed from outside (the experience's mode).
Thus, whether increased homocysteine is an epiphenomenon or is directly responsible for adverse cardiovascular effects remains an open question.
Among the topics are sonority and sonority-based relationships within American English monosyllabic words, whether the sonority sequencing principle is an epiphenomenon, sonority variation in stochastic optimality theory and its implications for markedness hierarchies, sonority and the larynx, the sonority dispersion principle in the acquisition of Hebrew word final codas, and acceleration peaks and sonority in Finnish sign language syllables.