Philosophic definitions

Greg Detre

 

epistemic vs epistemological � mainly a grammatical difference

phenomenological � difference between data + experience

the added subjective dimension

dualism incoherent � there is a third, the sensation/subjective experience, we are more than just sailors in a ship as souls in bodies would be

1 ������� The branch of knowledge that deals with phenomena as opp. to existence. l18.

2 ������� The branch of a science which describes and classifies its phenomena. m19.

3 ������� Philos. The theory that the pure and transcendental nature and meaning of phenomena, and hence their real and ultimate significance, can only be apprehended subjectively; the method of reduction whereby all factual knowledge and reasoned assumptions about a phenomenon are set aside so that pure intuition of its essence may be analysed. e20.

4 ������� Psychol. The methods of description and analysis developed from philosophical phenomenology applied to the subjective experiencing of phenomena and to consciousness. m20.

���������� phe%nomeno'logical a. of or pertaining to phenomenology; dealing with the description and classification of phenomena, not with their explanation or cause: m19.