Associations to the word «Phenomenology»

Wiktionary

PHENOMENOLOGY, noun. (philosophy) The study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view.
PHENOMENOLOGY, noun. (philosophy) A movement based on this, originated about 1905 by Edmund Husserl.

Dictionary definition

PHENOMENOLOGY, noun. 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.

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke