Everything experienced about an object belongs to it as a phenomenon

Evidence

Instead, this cup of coffee is a rich aroma, at once earthy and perfumed; it is the lazy movement of a curlicue of steam rising from its surface. As I lift it to my lips, it is a placidly shifting liquid and a weight in my hand inside its thick-rimmed cup. It is an approaching warmth, then an intense dark flavour on my tongue, starting with a slightly austere jolt and then relaxing into a comforting warmth, which spreads from the cup into my body, bringing the promise of lasting alertness and refreshment. The promise, the anticipated sensations, the smell, the colour and the flavour are all part of the coffee as phenomenon. They all emerge by being experienced. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 140

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concretely illustrates the phenomenologist’s core claim that the phenomenon is everything experienced, including anticipations and felt responses.
• XREF: Previews Sartre’s famous passage on the root’s viscosity and contingency in Nausea; also parallels the cup-of-coffee examples used in later existentialist accounts. — connects to: An object as phenomenon includes anticipation, warmth, and felt promise, not just sense data; Phenomena are genuinely in-itself rather than noumenal appearances; Every object appears against an undifferentiated ground and in a chosen but given perspective (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• An object as phenomenon includes anticipation, warmth, and felt promise, not just sense data #expands (0.85)
• Consciousness always reaches toward objects; it is fundamentally aboutness #expands (0.85) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 152
• Neither objective facts nor subjective associations capture an object as it is experienced #corroborates (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 139
• Phenomena are genuinely in-itself rather than noumenal appearances #expands (0.75)
• Every object appears against an undifferentiated ground and in a chosen but given perspective #expands (0.75)
• The perceived object is irreducible to the consciousness that perceives it. #qualifies (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 142