phenomenology

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Thus if phenomenology is to be a ‘rigorous science’ grounded only in what does not go beyond our experience, it must limit its study to objects of ‘immanent perception’, the meaningful series of

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  1. 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.
  2. noun A movement based on this, originated about 1905 by Edmund Husserl.

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  • Thus if phenomenology is to be a ‘rigorous science’ grounded only in what does not go beyond our experience, it must limit its study to objects of ‘immanent perception’, the meaningful series of —  Roman Ingarden
  • The result was strong representationalism about all experiential phenomenology, according to which the entire phenomenal (qualitative) content or qualia of any experience is metaphysically constituted without remainder by its representational content. —  Pain
  • It has also been argued that Wolf's description of our phenomenology is at best incomplete: it is not merely that we wish people to blame themselves more when they cause greater harm, but that we judge them to be more blameworthy. —  Moral Luck
  • Note that this phenomenology is not to be confused with that of his student Husserl, whether in the latter's Logical Investigations, in which it is defined as descriptive psychology, or in his subsequent books, namely the first book of Ideas, in which it is understood as a transcendental phenomenology, and refers to a general program in philosophy. —  On A Trans-Atlantic Flight
  • “Physiology, phenomenology, and Spinoza's true colors”. —  Consciousness
 

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  1. = French phénoménologie = Portuguese phenomenologia, from Greek φαινόμενα, phenomena, + -λογία, from λέγειν, speak: see -ology.
 

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