PHENOMENOLOGY AND RELIGION

Written 08/27/24

Published 08/27/24

Phenomenology and Religion:

How to Count to 4 and Do It Again

Justin Bailey

ABSTRACT

Phenomenology has been historically presented as a rigorous pursuit of understanding about knowledge and experience, while religions generally offer a faith-based pursuit of understanding about knowledge and experience. Regardless of their methods, both of these labels and the domains to which they refer have proven to resonate with end users as a means to enhance one’s own well-being and satisfaction with the world as they perceive it.

The following essay demonstrates a meta-structure which constructs categories of abstract structures, both phenomenological and religious, and defines/arranges these categories according to the integers as a least reducible ontological construct. Any given knowledge structure (commonly referred to as a phenomenological structure in this essay regardless of rigor) posits unique, distinguishable symbols which may correspond to abstractions of phenomena; in general, any set of symbols should reliably align to integer-based principles per the inherently discrete manner in which end users may interact with symbolic representation.