phenomenology

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Noun

1. 1
   The study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view.
2. 2
   A movement based on this, originated about 1905 by Edmund Husserl.
3. 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. 4
   The use of theoretical models to make predictions that can be tested through experiments.