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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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.
- noun A movement based on this, originated about 1905 by Edmund Husserl.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A description or history of phenomena.
- noun In Kantian terminology, a division of the metaphysics of nature which determines motion and rest merely in respect to the mode of representing them as phenomena of sense.
- noun In Hegelian philosophy, the exposition of the evolution of knowledge.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A description, history, or explanation of phenomena.
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- noun philosophy A
philosophy based on theintuitive experience ofphenomena , and on thepremise thatreality consists ofobjects andevents asconsciously perceived byconscious beings . - noun philosophy A
movement based on this, originated about 1905 by Edmund Husserl.
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- noun a philosophical doctrine proposed by Edmund Husserl based on the study of human experience in which considerations of objective reality are not taken into account
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Examples
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Instead of using Helmholtz's terminology, Stumpf, as did most historians, preferred the term phenomenology to designate the study of phenomenal experience, which occupied center stage in the fields of physiology and psychology.
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A large branch of experimental fiction came about through modernism (and Woolf is an excellent example) that was interested in phenomenology, or how we perceive the material world.
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Presenting simplified descriptions in terms of phenomenology is one thing, but presenting descriptions of something that you admit requires not only general relativity, but a theory of quantum gravity, in terms of classical mechanics should be a warning sign to most readers.
“Black Holes – a Simplified Theory for Quantum Gravity Non-Specialists” 2009
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Presenting simplified descriptions in terms of phenomenology is one thing, but presenting descriptions of something that you admit requires not only general relativity, but a theory of quantum gravity, in terms of classical mechanics should be a warning sign to most readers.
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Presenting simplified descriptions in terms of phenomenology is one thing, but presenting descriptions of something that you admit requires not only general relativity, but a theory of quantum gravity, in terms of classical mechanics should be a warning sign to most readers.
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Before Einstein, who asserted the radical inextricability of spacetime from the universe itself; and quantum physicists, who showed that there is no such thing as perfectly empty space; Romantic poets, with their figuration of atmosphere, and Romantic philosophers, with their interest in phenomenology, asserted the radical in-ness of reality.
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(Scalapino’s preface), taking instead as its project "elaborating problems in phenomenology but not in description" or placing emphasis "not on the thing seen but on the coming to see"
Introduction 2003
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What Stumpf calls phenomenology in his two Academy treatises of 1906 is a field of study to which he dedicated many works, from his early investigation on the origin of spatial perception up to his 1926 book on vowels and phonetics.
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This approach is known as phenomenology and was championed by a number of continental philosophers who argued that science will only ever give a partial explanation because objective measures always leave something of the 'lived experience' missing.
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This approach is known as phenomenology and was championed by a number of continental philosophers who argued that science will only ever give a partial explanation because objective measures always leave something of the 'lived experience' missing.
jschwebach commented on the word phenomenology
see: Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas
December 6, 2006
vanishedone commented on the word phenomenology
Not forgetting Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. Also the fact that Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit' uses the word, but not as part of the modern project of investigating structures of consciousness.
October 23, 2007