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For phenomenology the reply to this question seems straightforward.
As a phenomenologist I practice a kind of fidelity to experience. This
fidelity or hospitality makes no initial judgment about whether an experience
is true or false, right or wrong, more or less real or valuable than some
other experience. Phenomenology is not about comparisons. It is about the
appreciation of differences. Van Gogh's "Starry Night" is an experience
of the cosmos which has as much validity as the vision of the heavens through
a telescope does. That one is an image and the other a fact does not matter.
The phenomenologist is a witness and not a critic of experiences (Romanyshyn,
2000 a), and for a phenomenologist what appears matters first before one
asks what it might mean. Presence, for a phenomenologist, precedes meaning.
Published Poems
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Published Poems
Published Poems
Published Poems
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