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phenomenological reduction en · NOUN

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  1. (countable, uncountable) In the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) and his followers, a philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena independently of any considerations of the existence of those objects and without the influence of inferential knowledge.
    • The phenomenological reduction may be considered as a methodological device resorted to for the sake of arriving at radical and radically justified philosophical knowledge. 1955, Aron Gurwitsch, “The Phenomenological and the Psychological Approach to Consciousness”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, volume 15, number 3, page 306:

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