Phenomenology and the description of firsthand experience

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Aug 8, 2023 05:12 PM by Magical Realist.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvA9FxsM9G8

“The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.”
― Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception

**confused2** · Aug 8, 2023 08:44 PM

Raised to top of visible threads after replying to 'mental states' thread - we're doomed.

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