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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character of being phenomenal, in either sense of that word.

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  • De Man's notion of phenomenality is compared with the idea of "material vision" attributed to him in the recent reception of his work and with ideas of mental "seeing" or the impossibility thereof in the work of

    Article Abstracts 2005

  • In terms of phenomenality, the more interesting questions are along the lines of what is it like to be a thermostat.

    Matthew Yglesias » Influential Books 2010

  • In other words, expression becomes a designative rapport between the intentionality of a subject and the phenomenality of such a transmission of information.

    Mute - ‘The Simple Expression of Complex Thought’: For a Media Theory of Expression William Harryman 2009

  • Levinas's text here echoes his 1961 claims about the face as expression that pierces through phenomenality.

    Emmanuel Levinas Bergo, Bettina 2007

  • In "Seeing is Reading," Rei Terada sets out to restore a proper degree of complexity to the relation between "seeing" and "reading" — a binary opposition that, like "phenomenality" versus

    Introduction 2005

  • These substances are partless, unextended entities, some of which are endowed with thought and consciousness, and others of which found the phenomenality of the corporeal world.

    Leibniz's Philosophy of Mind Kulstad, Mark 2007

  • These various critical constructions of literary phenomenality reinstate transcendental models of mind for divergent ends.

    Article Abstracts 2005

  • CCM cite the career of Benjamin as another example of arche-engineering on the production lot of phenomenality, where this trajectory finds an ultimate articulation as a radical

    Seeing Is Reading 2005

  • The materiality (as distinct from the phenomenality) that is thus revealed, the unseen

    Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005

  • Adopting (b) yields the ˜raw feel™ conception of phenomenality seemingly implicit in Sellars and Ryle.

    Consciousness and Intentionality Siewert, Charles 2006

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