Phenomenology is defined as the study of all appearances in human experience, during which considerations of objective reality and of purely subjective response are temporarily left out of account. Without knowing this, however, you can deduce from the last paragraph, whose gist is that the author’s method of perceiving the world is not necessarily the one used by Fido, that differences in the author’s and the dog’s principles of phenomenology point to their different “ways and means of knowing about something,” or C.