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The Phenomenological reduction is the method for leading phenomenological vision from the natural attitude and the apprehension of being (i.e. Life as it is involved in the world of things and persons) back to the transcendental life of consciousness and the understanding of the being of this being.

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The Phenomenological reduction is aimed at giving verbal expression to mental events as they appear to consciousness independent of uncritical commitment to the existence of other people, places, objects, causality, etc.

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Phenomenological reduction is not merely a technique, but the definitive event in the history of man whereby man emerges as reality is 'de-realized.' Phenomenology is nothing but the express attempt to explicate that event.

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The Phenomenological reduction is that which reveals to us the primary subject matter of phenomenology the world as given and the givenness of the world... both objects and acts of consciousness.

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