phaneron – English noun declension

English noun forms of phaneron

Noun: phaneron
Singularphaneron
Pluralphanerons; phanera

Sample 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. [2013, Vsauce, "Is Anything Real?", 7:39–7:54]

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”).