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Full Idea
'Phenomenology' can be formulated as 'To the things themselves!' It is opposed to all free-floating constructions and accidental findings, and to conceptions which only seem to have been demonstrated. It is opposed to traditiona' pseudo-problems.
Gist of Idea
Pheomenology seeks things themselves, without empty theories, problems and concepts
Source
Martin Heidegger (Being and Time [1927], Intro II.07)
Book Ref
Heidegger,Martin: 'Being and Time' [Blackwell 1962], p.50
A Reaction
It sounds as if we are invited to look at the world the way a dog might look at it. I am not at all clear what it to be gained from this approach.