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phenomenology

phenomenology

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Study of how people feel and think about their experiences
  • noun
  • /fəˌnɑːməˈnɑːlədʒi/
  • Specialized
translation icon : fenomenología
  • What kind of future is psychoanalysis as a phenomenology of fear preparing us for?
  • hermeneutical phenomenology
  • philosophical phenomenology
  • method of phenomenology

So that's kind of kind of the beginnings of phenomenology.

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Examples

  • The study of phenomenology delves into how individuals experience consciousness and perception.

  • I mean that this is the issue about is, is there a phenomenology to cognition?

  • And he names the text here the Phenomenology of Spirit, right?

  • If we took the same substance at different times, this phenomenology was completely different.

  • I studied effect theory, phenomenology, psychology, and got to know myself and this system a lot better.

  • Frost poems perform a kind of phenomenology of work of Labor.

  • But my interest in modern phenomenology and hermeneutics is not primary.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Hagel says in the Phenomenology that what we want most fundamentally is recognition from others.

  • Epistemic authority was embodied in professional action and gathered in an informed phenomenology of lived experience.

    Academic text (2011)
  • How can empiricism and phenomenology be balanced in an epistemologically pluralistic psychology?

    Academic text (1991)

Surface Forms

phenomenology singular

Morphology

phenomenology = phenomenon (semi-transparent) = phenomeno + logy

The word clearly contains a form meaning 'phenomenon' plus '-logy' 'study of', but the specialized philosophical sense is not fully predictable from the parts alone.

Etymology

Phenomenology comes from phenomenon, which means 'that which appears', plus the ending -logy, which means 'study', and you can see the same root in phenomenal. So phenomenology is the study of things as they appear to our mind, our experience and consciousness, rather than whether they are 'objectively real'.