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phenomenology Definition

phe·nom·enol·ogy (fə näm′ə näl′ə jē)

noun

  1. the philosophical study of phenomena, as distinguished from ontology, the study of being; specif., such a study of perceptual experience in its purely subjective aspect
  2. a descriptive or classificatory account of the phenomena of a given body of knowledge, without any further attempt at explanation

Etymology: phenomenon + -logy

phenomenology Related Forms
phe·nom′·eno·log′i·cal (-nō läj′i kəl, -nə-) adjective phe·nom′·eno·log′i·cally adverb phe·nom′·enol′·o·gist noun
phenomenology Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • religion: Alistair's second major area of research has been the phenomenology of religion.
  • experience: I argue that the new skepticism rests on a problematic phenomenology of perceptual experience.
  • consciousness: This restriction empties the phenomenology of consciousness of some of its richness.
  • perception: A haiku phenomenology of perception reduces a named object to an entity in consciousness punctuated by emptiness.
  • medium: Areas of expertise: Media history: the media and public life; media and language; phenomenology of the media.
  • action: This article will begin by reviewing some historical attempts to investigate the phenomenology of action.

Possessives

  • pain: For another, why not simply say that the functional role itself constitutes pain's affective phenomenology?

Converse of object

  • explore: Various schools of digital art criticism have emerged, but they have not greatly explored the phenomenology and ontology of digital art.
  • call: However, for this project a method called phenomenology is planned.
  • use: I have completed a masters degree in which I examined the lived experience of being a prison nurse using phenomenology.
  • investigate: My research interest is in the use of functional MRI to investigate the phenomenology of mental illness.
  • associate: Then it looks at the connection between these ideas and the more modern phenomenology associated with UFOs and alien contact.

Adjective modifier

  • transcendental: The crisis of the European sciences and transcendental phenomenology.
  • existential: His writings prior to 1960 are in the tradition of existential phenomenology.
  • differential: It will pass the test of what you can call differential phenomenology.
  • critical: But critical phenomenology can be used to show that law's existential claims in this area are hollow.
  • affective: For another, why not simply say that the functional role itself constitutes pain's affective phenomenology?
  • stellar: A range of stellar phenomenology and behavior will be presented together with basic astrophysical interpretations.

Noun used with modifier

  • particle: It aims to foster world-class research in particle physics phenomenology.
  • physics: It aims to foster world-class research in particle physics phenomenology.