by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Hermeneutic Reduction
The hermeneutic reduction: openness Method: Bracket all interpretation and reflectively explicate whatever assumptions seem to need attention in writing the research text. One needs to reflect on one’s own preunderstandings, frameworks, and biases regarding the...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Heuristic Reduction
The heuristic reduction: wonder Method: Bracket the attitude of taken-for-grantedness and aim to awaken a profound sense of wonder about the phenomenon in which one is interested. At the most basic level the phenomenological reduction consists of the attitude or mood...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Methodological Reduction
The methodological reduction: approach Method: Bracket all established investigative methods or techniques and seek or invent an approach that seems to fit most appropriately the phenomenological topic under study. One needs to invent a flexible narrative rationality,...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Ontological Reduction
The ontological reduction: otherness Method: advice-Explore what recommendations for human action or social policy may be suggested. The ontological reduction involves the suspension of being itself. In Heidegerrian terms phenomenology asks the question of the being...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Phenomenological Reduction
The phenomenological reduction: concreteness Method: Bracket all knowledge, all theory or theoretical meaning, all belief in what is real, and aim at evoking concreteness or living meaning. The phenomenological reduction requires that one avoid all abstraction, all...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Reductio
Reductio It is impossible to practice the phenomenological method without understanding the meaning and significance of the reduction. “Reduction” is the technical term that describes a phenomenological device which permits us to discover what Merleau-Ponty (1962)...
