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phenomenology

noun
/fɪˌnɒmɪˈnɒləd͡ʒi/UK/fɪˌnɑməˈnɑləd͡ʒi/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō) Ancient Greek φαινόμενον (phainómenon)bor. Late Latin phaenomenonder. English phenomenon Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor. Latin -logialbor. French -logiebor. English -logy English phenomenology 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)

  1. derived from φαινόμενον

Definitions

  1. The study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of…

    The study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view.

    • Writing, individuation, and civilization are all parts of one larger cultural phenomenology.

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

    • 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.

  3. An approach to clinical practice which places undue reliance upon subjective criteria…

    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.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. The use of theoretical models to make predictions that can be tested through experiments.

      • He hopes [students] will "do the necessary phenomenology experiments and produce the necessary theory extensions" that will "turn over the present physics."
      • Particle phenomenology research includes perturbative QCD [quantum chromodynamics], physics beyond the Standard Model as well as heavy flavor physics.

The neighborhood

Derived

dual phenomenology, heterophenomenology, neurophenomenology, nonphenomenological, phenomenological, phenomenologically, phenomenological reduction, phenomenologist, phytophenomenology, postphenomenological, postphenomenology, psychophenomenology

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