phenomenology

  1. Noun.  (philosophy) A philosophy based on the intuitive experience of phenomena, and on the premise that reality consists of objects and events as consciously perceived by conscious beings.
  2. Noun.  (philosophy) A movement based on this, originated about 1905 by Edmund Husserl.

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