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essence (Husserl)

DAGFINN FOLLESDAL


Subject Philosophy » Epistemology

DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405139007.2010.x


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For Husserl ( see HUSSERL ) an object's essence ( eidos ) is not something peculiar to that object, but a feature that the object can share with other objects, e.g. the triangularity of a triangle or the greenness of a tree. Mathematics is the most highly developed study of essences. By performing an eidetic reduction, one passes from focusing on the individual physical object to focusing on one of its essences. By further adding a transcendental reduction ( see EPOCHE ), one reflects on the noemata (structures) of the former acts and thereby arrives at phenomenology, which is the study of the noemata of acts directed towards essences. ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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A Companion to Epistemology: Second Edition



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