phenomenology
Americannoun
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the study of phenomena.
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the system of Husserl and his followers stressing the description of phenomena.
noun
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the movement founded by Husserl that concentrates on the detailed description of conscious experience, without recourse to explanation, metaphysical assumptions, and traditional philosophical questions
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the science of phenomena as opposed to the science of being
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Etymology
Origin of phenomenology
First recorded in 1790–1800; phenomen(on) + -o- + -logy
Example Sentences
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The critic Sara Ahmed turned on a light for me in her book "Queer Phenomenology."
From Salon • Jun. 24, 2023
Phenomenology the first-person study of how the “phenomena” of the world impact the consciousness, in contrast and response to philosophical schools of thought that start philosophical reflection with the realm of ideas.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
Yes, today, Phenomenology of the Spirit help me, I have no choice but to come to jargon’s defense.
From Slate • Jan. 26, 2017
One of the poems Bishop mentioned favorably from “Diving into the Wreck” was Rich’s “The Phenomenology of Anger,” which read, in part:
From The New Yorker • Oct. 27, 2016
Hence arose the distinction between the sensible and the intelligible world—between things as perceived by sense and things as apprehended by intellect—between Phenomenology and Ontology.
From The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Mansel, Henry Longueville
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