Thus, although each effect is the resultant of its components, the product of its factors, we cannot always trace the steps of the process, so as to see in the product the mode of operation of each factor. In this latter case, I propose to call the effect an emergent. It arises out of the combined agencies, but in a form which does not display the agents in action.
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This is often credited (as by Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) as the first use of "emergence" in this philosophical sense.