Method and Phenomenology

Hegel presents Phenomenology as a hybrid of Rationalist and Empiricist methods, a Logical path from immediate Sensation, to Absolute Knowledge.  But, what is actually there in the text is a written account of an anti-Atomist thought experiment, which demonstrates, via a Dialectical method, that any This, Empirical or otherwise, is necessarily a Part of a Whole.  In other words, regardless of his intentions, he continues the Modern tradition of Philosophy as an Experiment, i. e. an attempt that may or may not succeed, which would be discovered in a reflection on Method, a concept that, like his predecessors, he presupposes without examination.