phenomenology
nounA 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.
nounA movement based on this, originated about 1905 by Edmund Husserl.
nounA description or history of phenomena.
nounIn 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.
nounIn Hegelian philosophy, the exposition of the evolution of knowledge.
nounA description, history, or explanation of phenomena.
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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