Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to phenomenology; related or relating to phenomenology.
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- adjective philosophy Of or relating to
phenomenology , or consistent with the principles of phenomenology. - adjective sciences Using the method of
phenomenology , by which the observer examines the data without trying to provide an explanation of them.
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Examples
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Why, unlike the physicist, does the biologist consider that some proportion of a certain phenomenological distribution of effects he observes are in "error"?
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Their evolutionary approach is phenomenological, which is A-O. K., but they draw some feels-too-good-to-be-true conclusions therefrom, ie that cultural specificity is immune to alien encroachment.
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Nel Noddings 'approach is to examine how caring is actually experienced (what we might describe as a phenomenological analysis).
A Day In the Life 2008
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Yet it is thought that sensing the fine texture of use brings us beyond language to a kind of phenomenological awareness.
HAPPINESS AND PLEASURE ABRAHAM EDEL 1968
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Similarly, in a quite different kind of phenomenological approach — extending to value the methods that Gestalt psychology found fruitful in the study of perception — Wolfgang Köhler attempts to identify a phenomenal quality of requiredness as a generic element and interprets both aesthetic and moral fittingness as special cases of it.
RIGHT AND GOOD ABRAHAM EDEL 1968
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These two modes of application of mechanics belong to the so-called "phenomenological" physics.
Out Of My Later Years Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 1950
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When we began applying the term "phenomenological" to our work, we learned that to many persons it sounds strange, unpronounceable, foreign; to some forbidding; to others enticing.
Humanistic Nursing Josephine G. Paterson
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Garden / ing is a mad mental scramble to catch up with what you're seeing, a kind of phenomenological slapstick.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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It also requires a kind of phenomenological projection.
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Garden / ing is a mad mental scramble to catch up with what you're seeing, a kind of phenomenological slapstick.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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