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Phenomenology
Definitions
- 1 The study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view. countable, uncountable
"Writing, individuation, and civilization are all parts of one larger cultural phenomenology."
- 2 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 wordnet
- 3 A movement based on this, originated about 1905 by Edmund Husserl. countable, uncountable
"The process of questioning back displaces the emphasis in phenomenology from an inquiry into modes of givenness, which assumes that there can be a simple starting point, to an inquiry into modes of pregivenness."
- 4 An approach to clinical practice which places undue reliance upon subjective criteria such as signs and symptoms, while ignoring objective etiologies in the formulation of diagnoses and in the compilation of a formal nosologies. countable, uncountable
- 5 The use of theoretical models to make predictions that can be tested through experiments. countable, uncountable
"He hopes [students] will "do the necessary phenomenology experiments and produce the necessary theory extensions" that will "turn over the present physics.""
Etymology
From phenomenon + -logy, from Ancient Greek φαινόμενον (phainómenon, “thing appearing to view”), hence "the study of what shows itself (to consciousness)". According to Martin Heidegger's Introduction to Phenomenological Research, "the expression “phenomenology” first appears in the eighteenth century in Christian Wolff’s School, in Lambert’s Neues Organon, in connection with analogous developments popular at the time, like dianoiology and alethiology, and means a theory of illusion, a doctrine for avoiding illusion." (p.3)
See also for "phenomenology"
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