PSY230H1 Lecture Notes - Karen Horney, Jargon, Pragmatism
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Kant originally distinguished between: noumena= what something is in itself, independent of our sensations of it phenomena= our sensory knowledge of things or actions in the external world- the thing we perceive is not what it is in itself. The only way for a science of psychology to understand anything is through the person"s subjective point of view. Nothing can be considered real, unless there is an agreement reached phenomenally by a number of subjective people. Argued that we need a new language of description as well as a new method of scientific investigation if we are to capture the distinctively human, non-mechanistic course of action. Not introspection, because introspective psychologists assumed they were studying real or noumenal processes. Phenomenology focuses exclusively on the phenomenal aspects of experience, that include the essence of meaning (which lies in phenomenal, not noumenal, field of experience) ex. this is chair, what its used for.
