Look up: phenomenon

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   phenomenon
   [Noun] Plural form: phenomena Something that happens or exists, usually unusual.
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   phenomenon
   [n] - a remarkable development 2. [n] - any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning
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   Phenomenon
   Phe·nom'e·non noun ; plural Phenomena . [ Latin phaenomenon , Greek faino`menon , from fai`nesqai to appear, fai`nein to show. See Phantom .] 1. An appearance; anything visible; whatever, in matter or spirit, is apparent to, or is apprehended by, observation; as, the phenomena of heat, light, or electricity; phenomena ...
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   phenomenon
   Origin: L. Phaenomenon, Gr. Fainomenon, fr. Fainesqai to appear, fainein to show. See Phantom. ... 1. An appearance; anything visible; whatever, in matter or spirit, is apparent to, or is apprehended by, observation; as, the phenomena of heat, light, or electricity; phenomena of imagination or memory. 'In the phenomena of the material world, and in ...
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   phenomenon
   noun any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning
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   phenomenon
   noun a remarkable development
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   phenomenon
   (fә-nom´ә-non) pl. phenom´ena any sign or objective symptom; any observable occurrence or fact.
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   Phenomenon
   • (n.) An appearance; anything visible; whatever, in matter or spirit, is apparent to, or is apprehended by, observation; as, the phenomena of heat, light, or electricity; phenomena of imagination or memory. • (n.) That which strikes one as strange, unusual, or unaccountable; an extraordinary or very remarkable person, thing, or occurrenc...
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   phenomenon
   (from the article `typology`) ...by postulating specified attributes that are mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive—groupings set up to aid demonstration or inquiry by ... in logic, a stated regularity in the relations or order of phenomena in the world that holds, under a stipulated set of conditions, either ... [2 rel...
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    phenomenon
    in philosophy, any object, fact, or occurrence perceived or observed. In general, phenomena are the objects of the senses (e.g., sights and sounds) ... [9 related articles]
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    phenomenon
    (Gr. phainomenon thing seen) any sign or objective symptom; any observable occurrence or fact.
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    phenomenon
    phenomenon (s) (Greek > Latin) 1. An appearance; anything visible; whatever, in matter or spirit, is apparent to, or is apprehended by, observation; such as, the phenomenon of heat, light, or electricity; phenomenon of imagination or memory. 2. That which strikes one as strange, unusual, or unaccountable; such as, an extraordinary or very remar...
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    phenomenon
    the object of knowledge, viewed empirically, in its fully knowable state (i.e., conditioned by space and time and the categories). (Cf. noumenon.)
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    phenomenon
    phenomenon, an observable fact or event; in philosophy the definitions and uses of the term have varied. In the philosophy of Aristotle phenomena were the objects of the senses (e.g., sights and sounds), as opposed to the real objects understood by the mind. Later, phenomena were considered the obse...
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    Phenomenon
    (Gr. phainomenon, Ger. Phaenomenon) In Kant: Broadly, appearance or that which appears. More specifically, any presentation, cognition or experience whose form and order depends upon the synthetic forms of the sensibility and categories of the understanding. In contrast to noumenon and thing-in-itself which lie outside the conditions of possible e...
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