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epiphenomenalize en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épi Proto-Hellenic *epí Ancient Greek ἐπί (epí) Ancient Greek ἐπῐ- (epĭ-)der. English epi- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂nyéti Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō) Ancient Greek φαινόμενον (phainómenon)bor. Late Latin phaenomenonder. English phenomenon Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al ▲ Ancient Greek φαινόμενον (phainómenon)bor. French phénomène ▲ Old French -al Middle French -al French -al French phénoménalbor. English phenomenal English epiphenomenal Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English epiphenomenalize From epiphenomenal + -ize.

Meanings

1. To regard as epiphenomenal
   • While conceding with Young (2011) that “it is a mistake to reduce social justice to distribution” (p. 15), Fraser critiques social justice frameworks that conflate issues of maldistribution and misrecognition, epiphenomenalizing either class structure or status order to one another, and rendering it impossible to explore the intersections between them. 2017, Viviane Josewski, “A “Third Space” for Doing Social Justice Research”, in Marina Morrow, Lorraine Halinka Malcoe, editors, Critical Inquiries for Social Justice in Mental Health, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 72:
   • To endorse option one is to epiphenomenalize macrophysical objects. 2007 December 8, Patrick Toner, “Emergent substance”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 3, →DOI:
   • The other venue from which environmental issues have been most explored by those interested in discursive formations—cultural studies—has tended to epiphenomenalize the physical environment by conceiving it as a social construct and thus as a symptomatic register of political or economic power, or as a site of cultural contestation. 1998, Lawrence Buell, “Toxic Discourse”, in Critical Inquiry, volume 24, number 3, →DOI, pages 640–641:

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