Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Phenomenological Analysis- Almar, Steve and Valerie

A)
1. Real- a red Mustang (car).
2. A) Wanting it due to its high end quality. Once acquired, one would enjoy having it.
    B) Mode of transportation (useful), symbol of wealth, asset.
3. Shiny paint, seeing the Mustang Emblem, moves like a car, seeing the color red.
4. A) A red Mustang.
    B) Recollecting seeing one on the highway, imagining driving one yourself (imagining inside and out rather than just the outside), imagining how you would feel driving one.
    C) Actually experiencing driving the red Mustang.

B)
1. Ideal- Love (as an emotion).
2. A) We desire it, are comforted by it, it is judged as a good thing in most circumstances except when the love of something/someone is dangerous.
    B) Emotion, state of being, relation between two beings or between someone towards something, feeling towards one's self/world.
3. Comforting, warm, satisfying, happy, recollections of romantic times or times with family and/or friends, time with out favorite objects,  seeing heart symbols.
4. A) Love (the word itself).
    B) Hearts, couples, past relationships, family/friends.
    C) Experiencing/expressing/feeling Love and directly witnessing it.

C)
1. The discovery of a new species of tarantula.
There are several intentional objects in this process. The real, perceptual species of tarantula that has not yet been discovered is the most obvious one.  But also the ideative species of this new family of tarantula is important because actually that is what is being sought after, the knowledge of the new kind of spider.  Success is also a big intentional object in the this process of research because it takes hard work to accomplish this but it is done with the intention of achieving success.
2. Intentional Content:
   A) One could be observing, judging, comparing/ contrasting with known species and fearing it possibly.
   B) It can be categorized as a spider because it has the shape of what we know as being a spider.This can be determined through counting 8 legs and a combination of head and thorax. The swift movements of the animal and its making of a web could also help us categorize it as a spider.
3. The immanent content involves the concrete acts and the psychological states in the physical phases of the discovery process such as going through the forest, looking for a tarantula and observing the tarantula in front of you once it is found.
4. Signitive:  Given as the language related to the process of discovering a new species. The word species is defined by biologists as a group of living organisms capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.   Each species has unique biological features such as arachnids having eight legs.  The process of discovering a new kind of tarantula involves the finding of an organism that fits under this linguistic definition of arachnid but still having its own unique features.
Imaginative: Given as the concept of a potentially new line of descent in the arachnid class.  The idea of descent leads to the process of evolution which involves the constant failing and succeeding process of natural selection.  The awareness of evolution leads one to believe that there are many families of organisms that have evolved but that have not yet been discovered.  This may provoke someone's curiosity and drive them to find these undiscovered organisms to add to the human body of knowledge.
Intuitive:  Given as the physical journey through a rain forest (common habitat for tarantulas) and the search for organisms that fit under the category of arachnids.  Once something is sighted that looks like a tarantula, it would be caught or simply observed from a distance.  Then features that distinguish the spider from other tarantula species would be sought after.  Perhaps the organism found would fit under the category of an already known species and the researcher would have to keep looking until one is found that fits under no currently known classes of tarantula.




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