Phenomenon vs Phenomenological - What's the difference?
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An observable fact or occurrence or a kind of observable fact or occurrence.
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Appearance; a perceptible aspect of something that is mutable.
* 1662 , Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World , First Day:
A fact or event considered very unusual, curious, or astonishing by those who witness it.
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A wonderful or very remarkable person or thing.
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* 1888 , , "The Phantom Rickshaw":
An experienced object whose constitution reflects the order and conceptual structure imposed upon it by the human mind (especially by the powers of perception and understanding).
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* 1912 , , "Is There a Cognitive Relation?" The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods , vol. 9, no. 9, p. 232:
(philosophy) Of or relating to phenomenology, or consistent with the principles of phenomenology.
*1956 , Maurice Natanson, "The Schism between Theory and Ardent Empiricism," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , vol. 17, no. 2 (Dec), p. 244,
*:Phenomenological "things" are not commonsense objects or sense data but the phenomena in their presentation, grasped as intentional objects.
*1991 , David Tilman, "Phenomenology From the Natural Standpoint: A Reply to Van Meter Ames," The American Naturalist , vol. 138, no. 5 (Nov), p. 1284,
*:I call my models "mechanistic" to distinguish them from classical models that are more phenomenological .
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(sciences) Using the method of phenomenology, by which the observer examines the data without trying to provide an explanation of them.
As a noun phenomenon
is an observable fact or occurrence or a kind of observable fact or occurrence.As an adjective phenomenological is
(philosophy) of or relating to phenomenology, or consistent with the principles of phenomenology.phenomenon
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(wikipedia phenomenon)Alternative forms
* phaenomenon, (archaic) * phainomenon * (qualifier)Noun
(phenomena)- The Indians, making a hasty inference from a trivial phenomenon , arrived unawares at a probably correct conclusion.
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- Hurricanes are a meteorological phenomenon .
- I verily believe that in the Moon there are no rains, for if Clouds should gather in any part thereof, as they do about the Earth, they would thereupon hide from our sight some of those things, which we with the Telescope behold in the Moon, and in a word, would some way or other change its Phœnomenon .
- The phenomenon of a huge blazing fire, upon the opposite bank of the glen, again presented itself to the eye of the watchman. . . . He resolved to examine more nearly the object of his wonder.
- "This, sir," said Mr Vincent Crummles, bringing the maiden forward, "this is the infant phenomenon —Miss Ninetta Crummles."
- But, all the same, you're a phenomenon', and as queer a ' phenomenon as you are a blackguard.
- Every "phenomenon " must be, at any rate, partly subjective or dependent on the subject.
- The Kantian phenomenon is the real as we are compelled to think it.