Philosophy of the Human Person - Phenomenological Reduction

3. PHENOMENOLOGY
It is the study of experience and the ways in which
things present themselves in and through
experience. (New World Encyclopedia)

8. REDUCTION
The term ‘reduction’ as used in philosophy expresses
the idea that if an entity x reduces to an
entity y then y is in a sense prior to x, is more basic
than x, is such that x fully depends upon it or
is constituted by it.
(The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

9. Types of Reduction

10. Types of Reduction
1. Epoche – the bracketing or suspending of the
natural attitude toward an object

13. Types of Reduction
1. Epoche – the bracketing or suspending of the
natural attitude toward an object
2. Eidetic Reduction – the reduction of experience to
its essence

15. Types of Reduction
1. Epoche – the bracketing or suspending of the
natural attitude toward an object
2. Eidetic Reduction – the reduction of experience to
its essence
3. Transcendental Reduction – the reduction of an
object to the very activity of one’s consciousness.

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scientific-reduction/>.