Dr Tom Kerns
North Seattle Community College

 

Definitions of Some Words used in Arthur Schopenhauer's

The World as Will and Representation

vol I

Definitions from Websters Dictionary - with a few modifications

Some words in Schopenhauer's Philosophy

 Word

 Pronunciation

 Function

 Meaning

 Etymology

 Date

 Misc

 phenomenon

 feh NAH men on noun a: an object or aspect known through the senses rather than by thought or intuition
b: a spatio-temporal object of sensory experience		 from Greek phainomenos, present
participle of phainesthai to appear, middle voice of phainein to show		 1605

Pl: phenomena

feh NAH men uh

 noumenon

 NOO men on noun a posited object or event as it is in itself, independent of perception by the senses from Greek nooumenon, that which is apprehended by thought, from noein to think, conceive, from nous mind 1796

Pl: noumena

NOO men uh

 a priori

 AH pree OAR ee adjective Being without examination or analysis: presumptive Latin, literally, from the former 1652  

 a posteriori

 ah POST er ee OAR ee adjective Relating to or derived by reasoning from observed facts Latin, literally, from the latter 1588  

 etiology

 ee tee AH luh jee noun a. Cause, origin; specifically: all of the causes of a disease or abnormal condition
b. a branch of knowledge concerned with causes		 Medieval Latin aetiologia, statement of causes, from Greek aitiologia, from aitia cause 1555  

 morphology

 mor FALL uh jee noun a branch of biology that deals with the form and structure of animals and plants; a study of structure or form German Morphologie, from morph- (form, shape) + -logie ­logy  1830  

 idea

 aye DEE uh noun a transcendent entity that is a real pattern of which existing things are imperfect representations   14th century