by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Experiential Sources
Prereflective experience is an inexhaustible source of lived meaning. Once we get deeply involved in a phenomenological topic we may make an amazing discovery: we seem to encounter instances and manifestations of our intrerest all around us. For example, when I was...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Historical Sources
Human phenomena always acquire their significance in historical contexts; thus history is a source of meaning for phenomenological inquiry. Sometimes we may gain unique insights into human phenomena when we study those phenomena in histrorical contexts. Through...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Language Sources
Language itself is a source of meaning Words often mean more than they mean. Sometimes the surplus or transcendent meaning is symbolic as in myth, or rhetorical as in political text, or motivational as in graduation speeches, or inspirational as in prayers. And...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Linguistic Differentiations
Linguistic differentiations provide a source of semantic variations that constitute a web of related phenomena and meanings. In order to find the source of linguistic differentiations we ask: What words or notions are closely related to the phenomenon that we study?...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Literary And Aesthetic Sources
Literature, poetry, and art are sources of phenomenological insights The human scientist likes to make use of the works of poets, authors, artists, cinematographers–because it is in this material that the human being can be found as situated person, and it is in this...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Metaphors
Apt metaphors can make visible aspects of human experience. Nietzsche observed that all language, and therefore all truth and error, is metaphoric in origin. Virtually every word we utter originally derives from some image, thereby betraying its metaphoric genesis. So...
