Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

phaneron

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: phaneron
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

That which is perceived by the mind, regardless of whether it corresponds to reality.

Example Sentences

"This mattered so much to Charles Sanders Pierce that he drew a line between reality — the way the universe truly is — and what he called "the phaneron" — the world as filtered through our senses and bodies, the only information we can get."

Etymology

Coined by Charles Sanders Peirce in 1905 based on Ancient Greek φανερόν n (phanerón, “that which is visible”), substantivized from the adjective φανερός (phanerós, “visible, apparent, manifest”).

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: φανερόν

Inflected Forms

phanerons (plural) phanera (plural)

Questions

What does phaneron mean?: That which is perceived by the mind, regardless of whether it corresponds to reality.
Where does phaneron come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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