by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | 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...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Cultural Sources
Human phenomena always acquire their significance in cultural contexts; thus culture is a source of meaning for phenomenological inquiry. As a result of the increased globalization of our cultural awareness, we now realize that people’s experiences of everyday life...
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?...
