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Insight-cultivating Reflection

Insight-cultivating Reflection Insight cultivators are ideas or thematic insights gleaned from philosophic and other sources of the human sciences. They aid in the reflective interpretive process. Insight cultivators are often found in the reflective writings of...

Interpretive Sensibility

Interpretive sensibility is a quality of tact. Tact consists in a certain perceptiveness and this perceptiveness depends on the sensitive ability of interpreting inner thoughts, understandings, feelings, and desires from indirect clues or evidence such as gestures,...

Interviewing Experiences

Interviewing Experiences In phenomenological human science the interview first of all serves the very specific purpose of exploring and gathering experiential narrative material, stories or anecdotes, that may serve as a resource for developing a richer and deeper...

Language

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...

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?...

Linguistic Phenomenology

Linguistical phenomenology Basic themes of linguistical phenomenology are “textual autonomy,” “signification,” “intertextuality,” “deconstruction,” “discourse,” and “space of the text.” Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Gadamer have been highly concerned with the role and...