I was being flip when, in
mentioning Lanny Quarle’s weblog, ::(solipsis)//:phaneronoemikon::
– there’s that colonitis again – I commented that since “Google doesn’t find an
instance of the word, presumably Greek, phaneronoemikon,
that doesn’t link back to Lanny’s site, I can’t tell you what it means
either.”
That led to two responses,
both worth noting.
Lanny himself sent me an
email, which later became the core of a note he posted
to his own blog. It is definitely worth clicking over to his site to follow the
etymological links he’s posted for each element of this constructed noun, but
the net of it, as he explains, might be read as:
an
emblem/figure (matrix of ikon and noema)
which represents (ikon and noema)
the contents of consciousness (phaneron) at any given
moment in time (noema and phaneron).
Shortly thereafter,
