epiphenomenon

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An activity, process, or state that is the result of another; a by-product, a consequence.

   “Yet I would suggest that philosophical and even medical curiosity are only epiphenomenons of another condition that brought deafness to cultural attention.”

2. isim A mental process or state that is an incidental by-product of physiological events in the brain or nervous system.

   “It is a necessary corollary of the view here advanced that in instinct as such consciousness is a mere epiphenomenon—a by-product, with no bearing whatever on the performance of the activity in so far as it is instinctive.”

3. isim A symptom that develops during the course of a disease that is not connected to the disease.

   “EPIPHÆNOMENA, […] Signs in Diſeaſes which appear afterwards.”