Phenomenology Definition

fĭ-nŏmə-nŏlə-jē
noun
The philosophical study of phenomena, as distinguished from ontology, the study of being; specif., such a study of perceptual experience in its purely subjective aspect.
Webster's New World
A philosophy or method of inquiry based on the premise that reality consists of objects and events as they are perceived or understood in human consciousness and not of anything independent of human consciousness.
American Heritage
A descriptive or classificatory account of the phenomena of a given body of knowledge, without any further attempt at explanation.
Webster's New World
A movement based on this, originated about 1905 by Edmund Husserl.
American Heritage

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phenomenology
Plural:
phenomenologies

Phenomenology Sentence Examples

  • The Phenomenology is the picture of the Hegelian philosophy in the making - at the stage before the scaffolding has been removed from the building.

  • The Phenomenology of Spirit, regarded as an introduction, suffers from a different fault.

  • The Phenomenology is neither mere psychology, nor logic, nor moral philosophy, nor history, but is all of these and a great deal more.

  • It will pass the test of what you can call differential phenomenology.

  • But in the progress of his physical work, which taught him, as he thought, to distinguish between what we see and what we mentally supply, he soon passed from this noumenalism to a " universal physical phenomenology."

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