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Meta-Phenomenology

The etymology of the term “exegesis” and “exegetics” borrows from Latin and Greek, meaning exposition, narrative, and explanation, also numerical exegesis of mathematical solutions. Exegetical phenomenology tends to be meta-phenomenology and meta-meta-phenomenology....

Noncognitive Modalities

We may distinguish several modalities of knowing that are noncognitive in a pathic sense. We feel that our knowing resides in our actions, situations, relations, and, of course, our bodies. And phenomenologically that is indeed the case. In our daily living we...

Ontological Phenomenology

Much of Heidegger’s work is concerned with the question of how philosophy is possible in view of the realization that human life is radically finite and always involved in dynamic change. When we describe a thing, then we tend to assume that this thing has a permanent...

Ontological Reduction

The ontological reduction consists of explicating the mode or ways of being that belong to or are proper to something. The ontic meaning of something is the mode of being in the world of that something or someone. Heidegger did not quite accept Husserl’s notion of the...

Openness

The epoché refers to openness. And the epoché is applied to the reduction. But the epoché and reduction are not technical procedures, rules, tactics, strategies, or a determinate set of steps that we should apply to the phenomenon that is being researched. Rather, the...