Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Whatever is in any sense present to the mind, whatever its cognitive value may be, and whether it be objectified or not. A term proposed by C. S. Peirce in order to avoid loading ‘phenomenon,’ ‘thought,’ ‘idea,’ etc., with multiple meanings.

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Examples

  • For Peirce, then, the entire phaneron (the world of appearances), as well as all the ongoing processes of its interpretation through mental significations, has evolved and is evolving.

    Nobody Knows Nothing 2009

  • So, everything in the phaneron, because it is a sign, begins an infinite sequence of mental interpretants of an object.

    Nobody Knows Nothing 2009

  • Furthermore, both Hegel and Peirce make the whole evolutionary interpretation of the evolving phaneron to be a process that is said to be logical, the “action” of logic itself.

    Nobody Knows Nothing 2009

  • But now, fourth, on top of all this, Peirce makes everything in the phaneron evolutionary.

    Nobody Knows Nothing 2009

  • Peirce understands this to mean that spontaneity has an objective status in the phaneron.

    Nobody Knows Nothing 2009

  • So the apostle, speaking of mankind in general, saith, To gnoston tou Theou phaneron estin en autois, Rom. i.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • * To gnoston tou Theou phaneron estin en autois: [4994] 1

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • He writes (ch. ii.): phaneron gar estin hēmin, ō basileu, hoti tria genē eisin anthrōpōn en tōde tō kosmō; hōn eisin hoi tōn par 'humin legomenōn theōn proskunētai kai

    The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

  • And then he sums up all into this conclusion: hoste einai phaneron hoti esti ti toiouton ho de kai kaloumen phusin.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • The conclusion is; 'Oti men oun to kuklo kinoumenon ouk estin ateleuteton oud' apeiron, all 'echei telos, phaneron

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

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