phenomenologicaladj.
/fᵻˌnɒmᵻnəˈlɒdʒᵻkl/, U.S. /fəˌnɑmənəˈlɑdʒəkəl/ Of or relating to phenomenology; dealing with the description and classification of phenomena, rather than with their explanation or cause.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > empiricism > [adjective] > relating to phenomenology and its elements
phenomenal1840
phenomenical1858
phenomenological1858
intentional1902
retentional1931
1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 926/2 Phænomenologicus,..phenomenological.
1866 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 1st Ser. 26 Phenomenological, as opposed to ontological.
1914 Mind 23 590 He [sc. Husserl] deals in a most valuable section with the relation of consciousness to natural reality, with the province of pure consciousness, and with the phenomenological reductions.
1956 A. A. Townsend Struct. Turbulent Shear Flow iii. 33 The success of this approach has led to the present tendency to approach the problem of turbulence by examining the dynamics of the turbulent motion itself in preference to using phenomenological theories which do not attempt to describe the turbulent motion but only its effects on the mean flow.
1976 T. Eagleton Crit. & Ideol. i. 24 He rejected, naturally, the political consequences..but the phenomenological basis of that criticism was of peculiarly direct relevance to him.
1986 Word 37 111 Ricœur chooses to base his descriptions of interpretation at the lived or phenomenological level of discourse.
2001 R. W. Cahn Coming of Materials Sci. vii. 275 The..phenomenological theory of ferroelectricity..is linked to a symmetry change in the crystal at a critical temperature which breaks it up into minute twinned domains with opposing electric vectors.
Compounds
phenomenological method n. (originally) the philosophical method outlined by Edmund Husserl for the description and analysis of phenomena as they are directly experienced (see phenomenology n. 1c); (more generally) any method of clarifying phenomena by careful analytic description of the way they are subjectively experienced or apprehended.
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1917 Philos. Rev. 26 647 Another loss entailed by the phenomenological method is the loss of guidance from biological and physical principles.
1923 C. K. Ogden & I. A. Richards Meaning of Meaning 419 It is important for the understanding of Husserl's terminology to realise that everything he writes is developed out of the ‘Phenomenological Method and Phenomenological Philosophy’.
1952 J. Collins Existentialists i. 30 Existentialism..is attracted by certain congenial features of phenomenological method, especially its epistemological neutrality.
2002 Bull. Symbolic Logic 8 144 They are deeply rooted in Gödel's distancing from Kant's conception of ‘pure’ logic and in his adopting of a phenomenological method of intuitive grasping of concepts.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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