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Actional Knowledge

Actional Knowledge: We discover “what we know” in “what we can do”. Not all “knowledge” that we “use” in our actions can necessarily be translated back into propositions or theories. In fact, Wittgenstein argues that as we give accounts of what we do and how we act,...

Boundary Meanings

We may find sources of phenomenological meaning between the boundaries of words and in the gaps between words. It can be important to detect the difference between the phenomenon we are studying and other phenomena that are related by different. We ask: where do the...

Collaborative Reflection

Collaborative Reflection Reflections on the thematic and narrative dimensions of a phenomenological text may be conducted collaboratively, by a research group or participants of a seminar. Collaborative reflective discussions are helpful in generating deeper insights...

Comparative Reflection

Comparative Reflection Phenomenological literature may contain material which has already addressed in a descriptive or an interpretive manner the very topic or question which preoccupies us. The work of other phenomenologists can be a source with which we can enter...

Conceptual Reflection

Conceptual Reflection Concept analysis is a philosophical technique for specifying differences of meaning. Concept analysis is the process of breaking up a complex conceptual or linguistic entity into its most basic semantic constituents. One assumption of conceptual...

Corporeal Reflection

Corporeal Reflection Lived body (corporeality) refers to the phenomenological fact that we are always bodily in the world. When we meet another person in his or her landscape or world we meet that person first of all through his or her body. In our physical or bodily...