Phenomenology is a “science of examples,” said Buytendijk. Phenomenological reflection and analysis proceed by way of example. But what does this mean? It means that the so-called data (stories) of phenomenological analysis may have the status of examples. Phenomenologists often speak of and reach for an “example” when examining an experiential phenomenon or event for its phenomenological features. When Gabriel Marcel (1978) discusses the phenomenology of hope, he gives the example of a mother who keeps a place at the dining table for her son who, she knows, died many years ago. Yet, says Marcel, the mother lives with hope. When Levinas describes the experience of the uncanny rumbling of the il-y-a (the there-is), he refers, by way of example, to a childhood experience of hearing the rumble of the there-is (the il-y-a) behind the wallpaper of his bedroom.