What is experienced directly is what a phenomenologist treats as certain

Evidence

This experiential cup of coffee is the one I can speak about with certainty, while everything else to do with the bean-growing and the chemistry is hearsay. It may all be interesting hearsay, but it’s irrelevant to a phenomenologist. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 141

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies phenomenology’s epistemic stance: the experienced phenomenon outranks scientific/theoretical accounts in certainty.
• XREF: connects to: Phenomenology investigates direct experience of phenomena rather than questions of reality — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 11; Phenomenology studies lived experience rather than reality-versus-appearance puzzles — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 11; Phenomenology rediscovers philosophy by describing lived things rather than questioning reality — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 12

Broader Connections

• Phenomenology investigates direct experience of phenomena rather than questions of reality #qualifies (0.85) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 11
• Phenomenology studies lived experience rather than reality-versus-appearance puzzles #qualifies (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 11
• Phenomenology rediscovers philosophy by describing lived things rather than questioning reality #qualifies (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 12