Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

phenomenological reduction

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.51 in modern English

Syllables: phe-nomeno-log-i-cal re-duc-tion
IPA

38

Scrabble Score

25

Letters

7

Syllables

15

Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The phenomenological reduction may be considered as a methodological device resorted to for the sake of arriving at radical and radically justified philosophical knowledge."

Usage

Inflected Forms

phenomenological reductions (plural)

Questions

What does phenomenological reduction mean?: 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.

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