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phenomenology

[fi-nom-uh-nol-uh-jee] / fɪˌnɒm əˈnɒl ə dʒi /
NOUN
study of subject and objects of a person's experience
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Drawing on Martin Heidegger’s phenomenology, he defines a UFO sighting as the sort of sense impression that happens “when the heavens break down and stop working.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

In IIT’s understanding of consciousness, the painter brilliantly renders the phenomenology of the natural world onto a two-dimensional canvas.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2023

"Stellar phenomenology is extremely rich, and no two stars are the same if looked at closely enough."

From Reuters ● Jul. 21, 2023

Instead of starting with the purely mental idea of a thing, phenomenology suggests that we reflect on how the experience of a thing affects us.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

Authenticity With The Self: For Actualization of Nursing's Potential Husserl, the father of phenomenology, suggested the study of our lived worlds, our experience, a return to the study of "the thing itself."

From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson



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