phenomenon

1. (by extension) A knowable thing or event (eg by inference, especially in science).Examples: "An electromagnetic phenomenon."broadly

2. (philosophy, chiefly Kantian idealism) An experienced object whose constitution reflects the order and conceptual structure imposed upon it by the human mind (especially by the powers of perception and understanding).Examples: "Every "phenomenon" must be, at any rate, partly subjective or dependent on the subject."; "The Kantian phenomenon is the real as we are compelled to think it."