phenomenology

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (2)  · 
Some people might define it as the phenomenology, and intentionality.

View all »
Definitions (12)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (2)

  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.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (8)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (47)

  • I. Sabra to be the founder of experimental psychology [21] for his approach to visual perception and optical illusions, [22] and a pioneer of the philosophical field of phenomenology or the study of consciousness from a first-person perspective. —  Bloggers.Pakistan
  • This paper reviews some recent contributions in terms of definition, phenomenology, and conceptual and empirical modeling approaches to artificial soil sealing with a special focus to urban areas of Europe. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • I myself largely buy into this phenomenology of Islamist terrorism but not necessarily the presumed strategic implications. —  Opinio Juris
  • In these theories the anomalous dimensions are known exactly and the correlation functions satisfy the systems of linear differential equations. blg cosmology gravity lattice matrix nonassociative phenomenology review sft susy tachyon CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • It is telling that Kochen ultimately has to appeal to the phenomenology of consciousness and talk about "natural feelings" to attempt to convince us - and perhaps himself - that we really do have free will in deciding whether or not to push that button. —  Brian.Carnell.Com
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 226 times.

3 people have marked this word as a favorite.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (1)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

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

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/fənɑmɛˈnɑlədʒi/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a year.

Recently looked up

euerie · ainsi · BARREL · Suttle · quaker

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Im dichten Fichtendickicht sind dicke Fichten wichtig. · Häufungspunkte · superkalifragilistischexpiallegetisch · wub wub · merch