Phenomenological reduction

Phenomenological Method: A systematic approach to studying human experiences in their lived, first-person perspective, by analyzing consciousness as it is perceived and experienced.

Epoche: The process of suspending all preconceived beliefs, biases, and preconceptions, to allow for objective and neutral analysis of subjective experiences.

Intentionality: The capacity of consciousness to focus on an object, experience, or thought, and give it meaning by relating it to the larger lived experience.

Bracketing: The act of isolating an experience from its context, and studying it in isolation for the purpose of better understanding its essence.

Transcendence: The notion that consciousness is able to reach beyond its own limits and boundaries, to gain access to a higher level of awareness, understanding, and knowledge.

Horizon: The total range of experiences that are available to individuals, and the ways in which they are intertwined with and connected to each other.

Phenomenological Reduction: The process of stripping away all externalities and biases, to arrive at the pure essence of an experience, and encounter it in its raw form.

Intersubjectivity: The recognition that human experiences are inherently shaped by the collective experiences of the community or culture to which they belong.

Lifeworld: The common world of shared experiences, language, values, and beliefs that people inhabit, and which is the context for all human existence.

Existentialism: A philosophical movement that emphasizes the existence of the individual as the starting point for all understanding and knowledge, and which advocates for a focus on individual experience and decision-making.

Ontology: The study of the nature of being, and how it is experienced and understood by conscious beings.

Hermeneutics: The study of interpretation, and how meaning is constructed through language and communication.

Perception: The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, in order to form an understanding of the world.

Consciousness: The state of awareness, attention, and perception that underlies all human experience and understanding.

Husserl and Heidegger: Two of the most influential figures in the development of phenomenological thought, who each contributed different ideas and theories to the field.

Eidetic Reduction: This type of reduction focuses on the essence of the phenomenon by stripping away all its accidental features or attributes. It involves analyzing the idea of a particular phenomenon to its core concepts and examining it in its purest form to reveal the most basic, universal properties.

Transcendental Reduction: This reduction aims to remove all external influences and biases from our perception of a phenomenon. By starting with the subjective consciousness, the transcendental reduction seeks to uncover the structures of meaning and intentionality that underlie it.

Constitutive Reduction: This type of reduction involves focusing on the conditions that make something possible. It aims to identify the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a phenomenon and to understand how these conditions relate to one another.

Phenomenological Reduction: This reduction recognizes the need for bracketing out presuppositions and beliefs before engaging in a phenomenological analysis of a phenomenon. This type of reduction acknowledges the subjective nature of our experience and focuses on the immediate, first-person perspective of an individual.

Bracketing Reduction: This involves temporarily bracketing out a portion of our everyday assumptions and beliefs to approach the phenomenon in purest form. This means sticking to the facts of the phenomenon without relying on any external ideas that one may have from the outset.

Naturalistic Reduction: This reduction aims to understand the phenomenon from a naturalistic perspective. Naturalistic reduction uses scientific methods and theories to explain and understand the phenomenon in question.

Radical Reduction: This involves reducing a phenomenon down to its most basic or fundamental level of understanding. It involves questioning assumptions, beliefs, concepts,and traditional standpoints, in order to arrive at a fundamental or fundamental conception of the phenomenon.