Phenomenology

I needed to resort to the dictionary to check a spelling in my last post.

In so doing, I succumbed to a habit given to me by a former teacher, a habit for which I will always be grateful.

The habit is this: whenever you are searching for a word in the dictionary, always read the definitions for the preceding word, as well as the following word. That way you get the spellings and definitions for three words instead of one.

All this lead me to 'phenomenology'. I'd not heard the term before, but I love how it rolls off the tongue. What's it mean? "1. In philosophy, the movement that concentrates on the detailed description of conscious experience. 2. the science of phenomena as opposed to the science of being."

Phenomenological!