different between phenomenology vs phenomenally

English

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.

Derived terms

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• phænomenally (rare)

Etymology

phenomenal +? -ly

Adverb

phenomenally (comparative more phenomenally, superlative most phenomenally)

1. In a manner that is extraordinary or amazing.

   The tennis player's serve was phenomenally fast.

2. In terms of phenomena.
   • 2014, Berit Brogard, Does Perception Have Content? (page 97)

     The 'old-look' and the 'bald-pink-and-wrinkled-look' are, in this context at least, one and the same. Phenomenally speaking, that is, the predicates 'old' and 'bald, pink, and wrinkled' here are equivalent […]

Synonyms

• extraordinarily, prodigiously, remarkably

Related terms

• phenomenal
• phenomenalism
• phenomenalistic
• phenomenology
• phenomenon

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