Adjective[edit] sophomoric â(comparative more sophomoric, superlative most sophomoric) 1  of, relating to, or characteristic of a sophomore.  conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature.
Phenomenology (psychology) Phenomenology is the study of subjective experience. It is an approach to psychological subject matter that has its roots in the philosophical work of Edmund Husserl. Early phenomenologists such as Husserl, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty conducted philosophical investigations of consciousness in the early 20th century.
For us, phenomenological reduction means leading phenomenological vision back from the apprehension of a being, whatever may be the character of that apprehension, to the understanding of the Being of this being (projecting upon the way it is unconcealed).