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The theory that knowledge begins with and must return to lived experience. All concepts, theories, and abstractions are built from the raw material of phenomena—how things appear to consciousness. Epistemological Phenomenology brackets the question of whether things exist "in themselves" and focuses instead on how they show up for us, because that's the only access we have. It's not idealism (denying the world) but methodological humility: start with experience, because that's where you are. Knowledge that loses touch with experience loses touch with reality.
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