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A Method (n.) by ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠its very essence tends to make itself superficial: every method drifts toward becoming a technique.

A Method (n.) cannot ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be brought to a field from beyond its boundaries: formal logic gives only the form of possible method; real method springs from the structure of the region itself.

A Method (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠understood only after the fact: one is first pulled into the epoche naively, by a historical situation — Husserl reached explicit awareness of his own method four years after the Logical Investigations.

A Method (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠measurement was the escape from subjective relativity: wherever you can measure, you reach a nonrelative truth anyone can check — though only as an endless approximation.

A Method (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠philosophy must be disclosing, not concluding — not a mythically, constructively inferring method (schliessende) but an intuitively opening one (erschliessende).