An object as phenomenon includes anticipation, warmth, and felt promise, not just sense data
Evidence
As Sartre argued in his 1943 review of The Stranger, basic phenomenological principles show that experience comes to us already charged with significance. A piano sonata is a melancholy evocation of longing. If I watch a soccer match, I see it as a soccer match, not as a meaningless scene in which a number of people run around taking turns to apply their lower limbs to a spherical object. If the latter is what I’m seeing, then I am not watching some more essential, truer version of soccer; I am failing to watch it properly as soccer at all. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 490 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Perceived objects exceed present grasp and promise future appropriations; Experience arrives pre-charged with meaning rather than as raw sense data — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 490; A freely-made promise transforms uncertainty into fact by willing a future into being — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1035 (+2 more)
Related
- Experience arrives pre-charged with meaning rather than as raw sense data (similarity 0.88)
- Perceived objects exceed present grasp and promise future appropriations (similarity 0.83)
- Concepts shape sensory perception even before direct experience begins (similarity 0.82)
- Everything experienced about an object belongs to it as a phenomenon (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Experience arrives pre-charged with meaning rather than as raw sense data
#corroborates(0.85) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 490