Language and the phenomenological reduction

Harry P. Reeder

pp. 14-34

in: Suzanne Cunningham, Language and the phenomenological reductions of Edmund Husserl, Berlin, Springer, 1976

Abstrakt

Discussion of the phenomenological reduction in the introductory chapter called attention to the two characteristics which are an outcome of its attempt to suppress metaphysical presuppositions. First, it reduces transcendent reality to phenomenal status, and second, it will accept nothing as true that is not self-evident and clear.