World Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Phenomenology === Within [[Phenomenology (philosophy)|phenomenology]], worlds are defined in terms of ''horizons'' of experiences.<ref name="Sandkühler"/><ref name="Mittelstraß"/> When we perceive an object, like a house, we do not just experience this object at the center of our attention but also various other objects surrounding it, given in the periphery.<ref name="Embree">{{cite book |last1=Embree |first1=Lester |title=Encyclopedia of Phenomenology |date=1997 |publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/EMBEOP |chapter=World}}</ref> The term "horizon" refers to these co-given objects, which are usually experienced only in a vague, indeterminate manner.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Smith |first1=David Woodruff |title=Phenomenology |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/ |website=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |access-date=9 April 2021 |date=2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Smith |first1=Joel |title=Phenomenology |url=https://iep.utm.edu/phenom/ |website=Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy |access-date=9 April 2021}}</ref> The perception of a house involves various horizons, corresponding to the neighborhood, the city, the country, the Earth, etc. In this context, the world is the biggest horizon or the "horizon of all horizons".<ref name="Embree"/><ref name="Sandkühler"/><ref name="Mittelstraß"/> It is common among phenomenologists to understand the world not just as a spatiotemporal collection of objects but as additionally incorporating various other relations between these objects. These relations include, for example, indication-relations that help us anticipate one object given the appearances of another object and means-end-relations or functional involvements relevant for practical concerns.<ref name="Embree"/> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page