For, from my most careful observation, such as it is, I have concluded, that a purely sympathetic disease of any part, has no accedent symptoms, no Epiphaenomena, no Epigenomena;

Indeed, the fundamental difference between the Latin and Orthodox churches must be looked for not in the minds of the theologians, but in the hearts of the people; the theological explanations of it are epiphaenomena rather than causes.[…]In fact, the epiphaenomena may be damped quickly or they may last for months and even years.

One thing that is taken for granted by almost all contemporary ‘theorists’ of secularization is that religion is an epiphaenomenon.

But, to tell the truth, Russian imperialism has only played, so to speak, the part of an epiphaenomenon in this affair.

But in the detection of the subtle “vibrations” of the psycho-social magma that articulate it into the forms and structures of the cultural epiphaenomena, one can sense an element of almost passionate sensual and aesthetic appreciation—just as one does, incidentally, in certain quasi-musical scientific hypotheses of our “string-theory” cosmologists.

Is subjectivity a part of the ontological furnishings of the world, or is it nothing but an epiphaenomenon?

An action's beauty, that is, the pleasure it causes in us, therefore is more like an epiphaenomenon for Price: the moral properties reside in the actions themselves, reason does the real moral work in us, and furthermore, really rather on the side, the action's properties cause feelings in us.

Epiphaenomenon

Meaning

Noun