phenomenology

Etymology
, from, 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)

Noun

 * 1)  The study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view.
 * 2)  A movement based on this, originated about 1905 by.
 * 3)  An approach to clinical practice which places undue reliance upon subjective criteria such as signs and symptoms, while ignoring objective etiologies in the formulation of diagnoses and in the compilation of a formal nosologies.
 * 4)  The use of theoretical models to make predictions that can be tested through experiments.
 * 1)  An approach to clinical practice which places undue reliance upon subjective criteria such as signs and symptoms, while ignoring objective etiologies in the formulation of diagnoses and in the compilation of a formal nosologies.
 * 2)  The use of theoretical models to make predictions that can be tested through experiments.
 * 1)  The use of theoretical models to make predictions that can be tested through experiments.

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 * Cantonese: 現象學
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 * Czech: fenomenologie
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 * Esperanto: fenomenologio
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 * Hindi: घटनाविज्ञान, दृश्यप्रपंचशास्त्र, संवृतिशास्त्र, परिघटनाविज्ञान
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 * Japanese: 現象学
 * Khmer: បាតុភូតវិទ្យា
 * Korean: 현상학(現象學)
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 * Nynorsk: fenomenologi
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 * Vietnamese: hiện tượng học