phenomenology

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A philosophy or method of inquiry based on the premise that reality consists of objects and events as they are perceived or understood in human consciousness and not of anything independent of human consciousness.

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

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A description or history of phenomena.

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In Kantian terminology, a division of the metaphysics of nature which determines motion and rest merely in respect to the mode of representing them as phenomena of sense.

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In Hegelian philosophy, the exposition of the evolution of knowledge.

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A description, history, or explanation of phenomena.

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A philosophy based on the intuitive experience of phenomena, and on the premise that reality consists of objects and events as consciously perceived by conscious beings.

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

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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