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Travel Philosophy: How about from phenomenon to essence? Is it good?

From phenomenon to essence is an important way to understand things.

Phenomena and essence are a pair of categories that reveal the relationship between the internal connections and surface characteristics of things.

1. Category Definition

Phenomena are the surface characteristics of things and their external connections.

Essence is the fundamental nature of things and the internal relationship between their basic elements.

2. Dialectical relationship

The relationship between phenomenon and essence is the unity of opposites.

1. Opposition

① Phenomenon is the external connection of things, which can be directly perceived by human senses; while essence is the internal connection of things, which can only be grasped by rational thinking.

② Phenomenon is changeable and perishable, but its essence is relatively stable.

③Phenomena are individual and specific things, while essence is the general and unique things among similar phenomena.

2. Unification

① The phenomenon cannot be separated from the essence, and the essence is the internal basis of the phenomenon.

②Essence cannot be separated from phenomena, and phenomena are the external manifestations of essence.

3. Master the method of recognizing the essence through phenomena

First, observe a large number of vivid phenomena and possess as much rich and real perceptual materials as possible.

Copernicus not only learned from the observation results of others, but also insisted on astronomical observations for a long time before proposing the heliocentric theory.

Second, use scientific abstract methods to analyze and synthesize phenomenal materials.

Who discovered the three laws of planetary motion? German astronomer Kepler. His research information mainly comes from the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. Brahe persisted in observation for 20 years, but was not good at theoretical thinking. He only left a pile of data and found no patterns.