/lit/ - Literature

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> In Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training 3rd edition I defined the term “phenomenology” by quoting the definition of the word from the Concise Dictionary of Physics (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1978, p.248): A theory which expresses mathematically the results of observed phenomena without paying detailed attention to their fundamental significance. My understanding of this concept has improved, thanks to my friend Nassim Nicholas Taleb, so I thought I'd share it with you.

Meh, he just uses it in the sense of studying immediate empirical data about lifting without going into physiological theories about the process, basically gathering information from the phenomena directly observed at the gym. I was expecting some Husserlian reductions and transcendental domains of pure gainz, Dasein Deadlifts and other such stuff.

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