As a discipline in philosophy, phenomenology forms one basic field among others, it is different from but related to other disciplines like ontology and epistemology.

 

" Phenomenology reinscribes ontology as the science of the objects of experience, and the ontological categories applicable to objects of experience are clarified phenomenologically. Phenomenological notions, such as the noema (the meaning of an act, it is general that several different acts can have the same noema), should not themselves be interpreted ontologically.

 

Phenomenology helps to define the phenomena on which knowledge claims rest, according to modern epistemology. On the other hand, phenomenology itself claims to achieve knowledge about the nature of consciousness, a distinctive kind of first-person knowledge, through a form of intuition "(Smith 2016).

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As Lester (1999) suggested, epistemologically speaking, phenomenological researches are based in a paradigm of personal knowledge and subjectivity, and emphasizes on the importance of personal perspective and interpretation.