PHL 513 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Searchlight, Immanence, Empiricism
15 Feb 2017
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Starting point is that we need to stop presuming the objective world exists and see how experience presents us with a world. There are essential phenomenological characteristics that are lost void of attention. Focusing on other phenomena is looking at the world as it exists engagement with an appearing world and describe it insofar as it appears (not turning away from the world, but turning into a newly perceived world) Experience is indeterminate experience itself is not fully clear and the very nature is that there is vagueness in it. Seeing someone"s face and not remembering what their eye colour was. Ponty"s ex: you can see a multi-sided crystal and you can appreciate that its multi-sided without actually counting the sides (lacuna) Seeing is like perceiving an overall outlook. Figure/background there are things that you see and things that you don"t see. The perceptual world has meaning built into it what we see is meaning (ponty calls it sense)
