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Phenomenology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠'the study of essences', all problems amount to finding definitions of essences, the essence of perception, the essence of consciousness.

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Phenomenology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a manner or style of thinking concerned with giving a direct description of our experience as it is, without taking into account its psychological genesis or causal explanations (as a historian or psychologist would).

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Phenomenology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a manner or style of thinking.

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Phenomenology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a reflection of science itself. Though it seems pre-scientific it could not have arisen before the emergence of science.

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Phenomenology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a sytle of thinking about existence that does not derive it from antecedents or physical and social environment, but which goes toward antecedents or environment and sustains them. It concerns myself as the absolute source rather than as a living being, a human being, or a conscious being.

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Phenomenology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an account of 'lived' space, 'lived' time, and the 'lived' world. It tries to give a direct description of our experience as it is.

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Phenomenology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠concerned not with the 'living being' or even a 'human' or 'a conscious', but with myself as the absolute source : As an existence that does not come from my antecedents or physical and social environment, but goes toward them and sustains them.

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Phenomenology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠concerned with giving a direct description without taking into account its psychological genesis or causal explanations.

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Phenomenology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠if only a myth, then still representative of a manner or style of thinking that existed as a movement before arriving at complete consciousness itself as a philosophy.

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Phenomenology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠less the feeling of encountering a new philosophy than of recognizing what one was waiting for.

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Phenomenology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not the encountering of something new, but rather, the recognizing of what we were waiting for.

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Phenomenology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠was a movement before becoming a philosophical system, this was attributable neither to accident nor to fraud, but to the painstaking works of balzac, proust, valery, or cezanne.

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Phenomenology (n.) remains ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠faithful to its intention by never knowing where it is going. The 'unfinished nature of phenomenology' is inevitable to its task.

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Phenomenology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the study of essences (of perceptions and of consciousness), whereby essence refers not to some impenetrable core that defines thing, but to the kind of mist like, indeterminate essence of a spritz of perfume.