Phenomenological

Quick meaning: Phenomenological is an adjective meaning (philosophy) Of or relating to phenomenology, or consistent with the principles of phenomenology.

Meaning

(philosophy) Of or relating to phenomenology, or consistent with the principles of phenomenology.

More Meanings

1. (medicine) Using the method of phenomenology, by which the observer examines data and other subjective effects without trying to provide a pathophysiological explanation of them, especially in diagnosing disease states and in nosology and other forms of taxonomy.

Example Sentences

I call my models "mechanistic" to distinguish them from classical models that are more phenomenological.

Phenomenological "things" are not commonsense objects or sense data but the phenomena in their presentation, grasped as intentional objects.

The far-flungness of the word, the phenomenological pleasure of finding it variously transformed by Ransom's modernity and Beowulf’s venerability made me feel vaguely something for which again I only found the words years later.

He [Martin Heidegger] was influenced by Edmund Husserl, a German thinker born in 1859 who was soon to become the leading figure of the phenomenological movement, dedicated to the description and investigation of our conscious experience without reference to its extramental causes and consequences.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include subjective, introspective, perceptual, phenomenal, eidetic, experiential.

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