How does phenomenology treat sense experience and nonsensory experience?

In phenomenology, the treatment of experience extends beyond the narrow confines of traditional empiricism. While phenomenology shares an unconditional respect for positive data with empiricism, it does not restrict its focus solely to sense experience.1

Instead, phenomenology admits "nonsensory" or "categorial" data on equal terms, provided these data present themselves intuitively. This includes phenomena such as relations and values. By analyzing these experiences as they are immediately given to consciousness, phenomenology seeks to describe the essential structures of both sensory and nonsensory phenomena without relying on external theories or causal explanations.12

This approach is grounded in the concept of intentionality—the directedness of consciousness toward an object. Whether an experience is sensory or nonsensory, the phenomenologist examines how the object of that experience is "constituted" or given meaning within the acts of consciousness. Consequently, phenomenology rejects the phenomenalist view that phenomena are limited to sensations or mere possibilities of sensation, insisting instead on analyzing the full complexity of the intentional structure of consciousness.341