Phenomenology (n.) is a method of inquiry concerned with approaching the object in a way that is immediate or receptive: We must alter nothing in the object as it presents itself. In apprehending, we must refrain from trying to comprehend it.
Phenomenology (n.) is an approach to objects characterized by the following shift in perspective: Rather than studying 'things interacting in a manner x' the phenomenologist studies 'the odd fact that we are understanding things as interacting in a manner x'.
Phenomenology (n.) is concerned with apprehending rather than comprehending.
Phenomenology (n.) is the study of material and mental phenomena both of which 'are' insofar as they partially hide and partially reveal truth.
Phenomenology (n.) is a highway of despair: natural consciousness watches its certainties fail one by one, and each collapse becomes the next, truer standpoint, a ladder up to science measured by consciousness itself.