Associations to the word «Phenomenology»

Wiktionary

PHENOMENOLOGY, noun. (philosophy) The study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view.
PHENOMENOLOGY, noun. (philosophy) A movement based on this, originated about 1905 by Edmund Husserl.

Dictionary definition

PHENOMENOLOGY, noun. 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.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky