Observable occurrences

Usage examples of phenomena.

So I am left with the question: Can science provide an adequate view of the entire natural world that includes only objective phenomena, while excluding the subjective phenomenon of consciousness altogether?

These principles have helped us understand a certain range of objective natural phenomena, particularly those described adequately by classical mechanics, and this has led many scientists to believe they are universally valid.

But they have simultaneously obscured a wide range of subjective phenomena, including consciousness itself, and in this way dogmatic adherence to these assumptions has limited scientific research and impoverished our understanding of nature as a whole.

For Hellenistic thinkers, phenomena were defined as things, events, and processes that can be seen, in contrast to noumena, which were thought to be things as they are in themselves.

According to scientific materialism, however, phenomena have come to be identified as things, events, or processes that occur regularly under definite circumstances.

The metaphysical principles that constitute scientific monism have proven to be enormously valuable guidelines for investigating a wide range of phenomena, specifically those that are physical, quantifiable,, orderly, and repeatable.

Reductionism, like the other tenets of scientific materialism, has guided scientists in shedding light on those types of phenomena that can be best understood by examining their elementary components.

Moreover, when it comes to scientifically inquiring into the nature and origins of consciousness and other mental events, the principle of reductionism may actually obscure the phenomena one is trying to investigate.

Likewise, not only clocks but all physical phenomena that endure in time would be observing the duration of the phenomena with which they come in contact.

Nevertheless, like mana, it is still thought to underlie, empower, and regulate all physical phenomena, and it manifests in physical force.

Yet despite the element of discord within the scientific community, there is widespread unity in the sense that all scientists seek to comprehend phenomena in terms of the objective world.

Advocates of scientism commonly overlook the subjective, human role of choosing which natural phenomena to investigate, the means of investigating them, and the diversity of human interpretations of research data.

Hippocrates, however, did hypothesize that all mental phenomena are located in the brain, long before there was any compelling empirical evidence to support such a theory.

The notion that phenomena themselves and the laws governing them are essentially quantifiable can be traced back in the Christian tradition to the writings of Augustine, who in turn drew on Plato.

Scientific materialism has served admirably as a metaphysical framework for the scientific investigation of external, physical phenomena, but it has proven inadequate as a framework for the scientific investigation of internal, mental phenomena.