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phenomenologist

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phe·nom·e·nol·o·gy  (f-nm-nl-j)
n.
1. 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.
2. A movement based on this, originated about 1905 by Edmund Husserl.

phe·nome·no·logi·cal (-n-lj-kl) adj.
phe·nome·no·logi·cal·ly adv.
phe·nome·nolo·gist n.
Translations
phenomenologist [fəˌnɒməˈnɒlədʒɪst] Nfenomenólogo/a m/f


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00 Hardcover Continuum advances in religious studies BL41 Debates about theory and method in the study of religions have been conducted in terms of the opposition of understanding to explanation, contends Tremlett (School of Oriental and African Studies and Institute of Ismaili Studies, London), that is, phenomenologists and their opponents from such backgrounds as anthropology, sociology, and psychology justify their approaches by denying the legitimacy of all others.
Early on I once called him an essentialist, to contrast what he was doing with a phenomenologist teacher we both knew, and to contrast him with numerous social scientists who construct behavioral categories, count the frequency of their observed occurrence in a target group, and call these numbers the hard facts of the case.
Mike Beltzner, phenomenologist at Mozilla, told SCMagazineUS.
 
 
 
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