noème
Noème is a term originating from the philosophy of Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology. It refers to the "what" of an experience, the meaningful content of consciousness, as opposed to the "how" or the act of experiencing itself, which is called the noesis. For example, if you are looking at a red apple, the noèse is the act of seeing, perceiving, and thinking about the apple. The noème, in contrast, is the apple as it is intended by consciousness, the objective correlate of the act of perception. It is the meaning that is apprehended.
Husserl distinguished between the noème and the object as it exists in the world independently of our
The concept of the noème is central to Husserl's phenomenological method, which aims to describe consciousness