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phenomenological reduction

phenomenological reduction noun: 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.

Noun

phenomenological reduction (countable and uncountable, plural phenomenological reductions)

  1. 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

Forms of phenomenological reduction

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Questions about phenomenological reduction

What does phenomenological reduction mean?
Phenomenological reduction means 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.
What part of speech is phenomenological reduction?
Phenomenological reduction is a noun.
What is the plural of phenomenological reduction?
The plural of phenomenological reduction is phenomenological reductions.

Words near phenomenological reduction in the dictionary

  1. phenomenographic
  2. phenomenographies
  3. phenomenography
  4. phenomenologic
  5. phenomenological
  6. phenomenological reduction
  7. phenomenological reductions
  8. phenomenologically
  9. phenomenologies
  10. phenomenologist
  11. phenomenologists

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