phenomenon
n. event or circumstance that can be observed; something unusual; something detected by the senses | ||||
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Phenomena Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Phenomena
(pl. )
of Phenomenon
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of Phenomenon
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phenomenon
Noun
1. any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning
(hyponym) natural phenomenon
2. a remarkable development
(hypernym) development
Noun
1. any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning
(hyponym) natural phenomenon
2. a remarkable development
(hypernym) development
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Phenomena Definition from Religion & Spirituality Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Phenomena
Phenomena [from Greek phainomena appearances from phainomai to appear] The impermanent, ever-changing outward appearances of things, as opposed to onta, the permanent enduring realities behind. Also, objects of perception as opposed to objects of cognition; that which is perceived by the senses, contrasted with that which is conceived by the mind. The word correlates with both meanings of noumena. Under the first meaning it may be said that, in one sense, everything is phenomenal except the one Reality; but the word may also be used relatively. Under the second meaning, we may speak of phenomena as a word stressing the mechanical aspect of things, as contrasted with the unseen intelligences behind, as in the contrast between the forces of science and the intelligent noumena of which they are merely the manifestations.
In modern popular use it also denotes a supernormal event, such as an exercise of occult or magical powers, or again a portent, what the Latins would have called a prodigy.
Phenomena [from Greek phainomena appearances from phainomai to appear] The impermanent, ever-changing outward appearances of things, as opposed to onta, the permanent enduring realities behind. Also, objects of perception as opposed to objects of cognition; that which is perceived by the senses, contrasted with that which is conceived by the mind. The word correlates with both meanings of noumena. Under the first meaning it may be said that, in one sense, everything is phenomenal except the one Reality; but the word may also be used relatively. Under the second meaning, we may speak of phenomena as a word stressing the mechanical aspect of things, as contrasted with the unseen intelligences behind, as in the contrast between the forces of science and the intelligent noumena of which they are merely the manifestations.
In modern popular use it also denotes a supernormal event, such as an exercise of occult or magical powers, or again a portent, what the Latins would have called a prodigy.
Phenomena Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Theological and Philosophical Biography and Dictionary |
Phenomena
| Kant Glossary |
PHENOMENA
[A249] Opposed by Kant to noumena, which beings unlike us (viz., with a radically different sensibility) could experience; all our possible experience, i.e., of appearances, is of phenomena. "Appearances, so far as they are thought as objects according to the unity of the categories, are called phenomena. But if I postulate things which are mere objects of understanding, and which, nevertheless, can be given as such to an intuition [pace our sensibility]...given therefore coram intuitu intellectuali--such things would be entitled noumena (intelligibilia)". Kant argues that the objective reality of noumena has already been established: "for if the senses represent to us something merely as it appears, this something must also in itself be a thing, and an object of a non-sensible intuition, that is, of the understanding. In other words, a [kind of] knowledge must be possible, in which there is no sensibility, and which alone has reality that is absolutely objective". (Kant, of course, denies that we can have such absolute knowledge; all our knowledge is limited by our sensibility to knowledge of transcendentally ideal appearances).
[A249] Opposed by Kant to noumena, which beings unlike us (viz., with a radically different sensibility) could experience; all our possible experience, i.e., of appearances, is of phenomena. "Appearances, so far as they are thought as objects according to the unity of the categories, are called phenomena. But if I postulate things which are mere objects of understanding, and which, nevertheless, can be given as such to an intuition [pace our sensibility]...given therefore coram intuitu intellectuali--such things would be entitled noumena (intelligibilia)". Kant argues that the objective reality of noumena has already been established: "for if the senses represent to us something merely as it appears, this something must also in itself be a thing, and an object of a non-sensible intuition, that is, of the understanding. In other words, a [kind of] knowledge must be possible, in which there is no sensibility, and which alone has reality that is absolutely objective". (Kant, of course, denies that we can have such absolute knowledge; all our knowledge is limited by our sensibility to knowledge of transcendentally ideal appearances).
Phenomena Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Phenomenon
A phenomenon (Greek: φαινόμενoν, pl. phenomena φαινόμενα) is any occurrence that is observable.
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