phenomenology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
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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)
Base: phenomenon
Affixes: -logy
Inflected forms:
form: phenomenologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: phænomenology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Writing, individuation, and civilization are all parts of one larger cultural phenomenology.
A similar and more influential use of the term can be found in William Whewell's Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1847), where phenomenology occurs in the context of the "palaetiological sciences" (i.e., sciences which deal wih more ancient conditions of things), as that branch of these studies which is to be followed by aetiology and theory. Among such phenomenologies Whewell mentions particularly phenomenological uranology, phenomenological geography of plants and animals, and even a phenomenological glossology.
gloss: A movement based on this, originated about 1905 by Edmund Husserl.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The use of theoretical models to make predictions that can be tested through experiments.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: 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.
Well, it is in some sense the basic job description of a physicist to try to conceive of methods that make accessible natural phenomena that where hitherto out of reach, and to do so by devicing^([sic]) experiments. It is here that phenomenology comes into play by trying to work out models that can actually be tested by available data.
The group's many projects include the modelling of observations (phenomenology)
Related words: noumenology
Derived words: dual phenomenology
heterophenomenology
neurophenomenology
nonphenomenological
phenomenological
phenomenologically
phenomenological reduction
phenomenologist
phytophenomenology
postphenomenological
postphenomenology
psychophenomenology
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