Talk:Phenomenon (Kant's philosophy)

Gareth, you've made this a "CZ Live" article, but quite honestly, I don't know what the point of the article is--I never did. I can see an article about Kant's use of "phenomenon," but the rest of the article is, well, simply an elaboration and application of the dictionary definition of "phenomenon." The only thing substantial in the article is

Phenomena make up the raw data of science. It was an attempt to explain phenomena like earthquakes, lightning, rain, fire, sunrise, thunderstorm, rusting that lead to the development of modern science. Phenomena are often exploited by technology.

As to the list of kinds of phenomena, if you look at the Wikipedia article, you'll see that "biological phenomenon" redirects to "biology," "chemical phenomenon" redirects to "chemistry," and so on. Quite right, too.

Given the utter absence of enough information in this article beyond the purely semantic, I'd actually be inclined to delete it. But perhaps someone can demonstrate to me a tradition and knowledge base concerning the very concept (not the meaning) of phenomena, and if so, I'll relent.

--Larry Sanger 09:00, 26 January 2007 (CST)