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- definition: phenomenological reduction (aka epoche)
- There is an experience in which it is possible for us to come to the world with no knowledge or preconceptions in hand;
- it is the experience of astonishment.
- The “knowing” we have in this experience stands in stark contrast to
- the “knowing” we have in our everyday lives, where we come to the world with
- theory and
- “knowledge” in hand,
- our minds already made up before we ever engage the world.
- However, in the experience of astonishment,
- our everyday “knowing,” when compared to
- the “knowing” that we experience in astonishment,
- is shown up as a pale epistemological imposter and is reduced to mere opinion by comparison.
- The phenomenological reduction (aka epoche)
- is at once
- a description and
- prescription
- of a technique that allows one to voluntarily sustain the awakening force of astonishment
- so that conceptual cognition can be carried throughout intentional analysis,
- thus bringing the “knowing” of astonishment into our everyday experience.
- definition: phenomenological reduction (aka epoche)
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