different between phenomenologist vs phenomenology

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Etymology

phenomenology +? -ist

Noun

phenomenologist (plural phenomenologists)

1. (philosophy) A philosopher who practices, advocates, or specializes in the scholarly study of phenomenology.

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Alternative forms

• phænomenology (obsolete)

Etymology

phenomenon +? -logy, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (phainómenon, “thing appearing to view”), hence "the study of what shows itself (to consciousness)".

According to Heidegger's Introduction to Phenomenological Research, "the expression “phenomenology” first appears in the eighteenth century in Christian Wolff’s School, in Lambert’s Neues Organon, in connection with analogous developments popular at the time, like dianoiology and alethiology, and means a theory of illusion, a doctrine for avoiding illusion." (p.3)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f??n?m??n?l??i/
• (US) enPR: f?-nä'-m?-näl??-g?, IPA^(key): /f??n?m??n?l??i/

Noun

phenomenology (countable and uncountable, plural phenomenologies)

1. (philosophy) The study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view.
2. (philosophy) A movement based on this, originated about 1905 by Edmund Husserl.
3. (physics) The use of theoretical models to make predictions that can be tested through experiments.

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