Sentences with phrase «epiphenomenon of»

Van Velde's insistence on «failure» in painting has been too often misunderstood as an epiphenomenon of Expressionism, when it is actually quite the opposite.

There's also some testosterone you know, relationships where it might not an adaptation so much as a you know, epiphenomenon of some other adaptation.

Rather it might either be just something that happens or, in some instances, an epiphenomenon of coordination of expression to enable reduced gene expression noise.

Consequently, theories of evolution which, in accordance with the philosophies inspiring them, consider the spirit as emerging from the forces of living matter or as a mere epiphenomenon of this matter, are incompatible with the truth about man.

A corollary of this view, on the part of some scientists, is that the phenomenon of mentality in human beings can be explained by the complex interaction of molecules and atoms in the brain, as epiphenomenon of matter.

(«Theories of evolution [that], in accordance with the philosophies inspiring them, consider the mind as emerging from the forces of living matter, or as a mere epiphenomenon of this matter, are incompatible with the truth about man.»)

Yet nothing so excites the modern materialist as the possibility of proving that consciousness is reducible to physiology, that freedom is an illusion, that mind is a ghostly epiphenomenon of unconscious metabolisms.

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Moreover, if the locus of action is the single occasion, a person's action is reduced to an epiphenomenon because most of what a person is, past occasions, is incapable of acting; to limit action to a single occasion is essentially to deny acting to persons.

At one extreme, world - system theory, as I have indicated, would at most regard religion as epiphenomenon subject to the more profound influences of political economy.

Traditions of every kind, hoarded and manifested in gesture and language, in schools, libraries, museums, bodies of law and religion, philosophy and science — everything that accumulates, arranges itself, recurs and adds to itself, becoming the collective memory of the human race — all this we may see as no more than an outer garment, an epiphenomenon precariously superimposed upon all the other edifices of Nature (the only truly organic ones, as it may appear): but it is precisely this optical illusion which we have to overcome if our realism is to reach to the heart of the matter.

The mind is not an epiphenomenon (does not arise out of) the brain.

The reemergence of a Victorian family ideal as part of the vision of a Christian America in the 1950s was an epiphenomenon, a temporary spark of life in a dying ethos.

Anil Ananthaswamy seems to dismiss Thomas Henry Huxley's view that consciousness is an «epiphenomenon» — a mere side effect of...

«Many rheumatologists think that the autoantibodies are an epiphenomenon — an interesting phenomenon but not directly related to the cause of lupus,» said Wolin.

Maybe it was an epiphenomenon that was secondary to the process of transformation.

The low morning cortisol isn't the «cause» of the depression — it's simply an epiphenomenon that occurs in those depressed people who don't sleep well.)

They conclude that the changes observed in CFS may be secondary to disrupted sleep and social routine, and thus an epiphenomenon in terms of fatigue causation.»

But all the other conventions of figuration: gravity, volume, room, near and far, light and dark; they don't enter into it except as epiphenomenon, the flotsam and jetsam cast off from his paint handling.