phenomenological

Definition

Of or relating to phenomenology, or consistent with the principles of phenomenology.

Etymology

From phenomenology + -ical.

Example Sentences

• "Phenomenological "things" are not commonsense objects or sense data but the phenomena in their presentation, grasped as intentional objects."
• "I call my models "mechanistic" to distinguish them from classical models that are more phenomenological."
• "A similar and more influential use of the term can be found in William Whewell's Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1847), where phenomenology occurs in the context of the "palaetiological sciences" (i.e., sciences which deal wih more ancient conditions of things), as that branch of these studies which is to be followed by aetiology and theory. Among such phenomenologies Whewell mentions particularly phenomenological uranology, phenomenological geography of plants and animals, and even a phenomenological glossology."