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Group phenomena concern the behavior of a particular group of individual entities, usually organisms and most especially people. The behavior of individuals often changes in a group setting in various ways, and a group may have its own behaviors not possible for an individual because of the
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apply especially to organisms and people in that subjective states are implicit in the term. Attitudes and events particular to a group may have effects beyond the group, and either be adapted by the larger society, or seen as aberrant, being punished or shunned.
303:, a phenomenon is an observable happening or event. Often, this term is used without considering the causes of a particular event. Example of a physical phenomenon is an observable phenomenon of the lunar orbit or the phenomenon of oscillations of a pendulum. 131:
In ordinary language 'phenomenon/phenomena' refer to any occurrence worthy of note and investigation, typically an untoward or unusual event, person or fact that is of special significance or otherwise
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refers to any incident deserving of inquiry and investigation, especially processes and events which are particularly unusual or of distinctive importance.
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means things as they are experienced through the senses and processed by the mind as distinct from things in and of themselves (
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in this part of his philosophy, in which phenomenon and noumenon serve as interrelated technical terms. Far predating this, the
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The combustion of a match is an observable occurrence, or event, and therefore a phenomenon.
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often refers to an extraordinary, unusual or notable event. According to the
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A mechanical phenomenon is a physical phenomenon associated with the
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On the Form and Principles of the Sensible and Intelligible World
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Dictionary of Visual Discourse: A Dialectical Lexicon of Terms
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A comparison between a candle flame on Earth (left) and in a
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In scientific usage, a phenomenon is any event that is
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and Principles of the Sensible and Intelligible World
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be directly observed. Kant was heavily influenced by
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Index

Phenomena
Phenomena (disambiguation)
Phenomenal (disambiguation)

observable
event
philosophical
Immanuel Kant
noumenon
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
ancient Greek
Pyrrhonist
Sextus Empiricus
Phenomenology (philosophy)
noumena
inaugural dissertation
Form
Immanuel Kant

microgravity
International Space Station
observed

Cloud chamber
hypotheses
theory
animated version
Phenomenalism
observable
instrumentation

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