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The Way from the Ideal of Science: The Other Motivation for the Transcendental Phenomenological Reduction in the Doctoral Dissertation of Dorion Cairns

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Sciences (and non-scientific knowledge) differ in subject-matters, but all subject-matter is one in the sense that each separate subject-matter is a part of, or essentially related to, the world. (Cairns (2012: 19). Cited provisionally by the original pagination)

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Cairns presents a plausible two-part, step by step, approach seemingly developed in Husserl’s “workshop” to transcendental phenomenology that is independent of culture and history, refines a concept of knowledge and its references to worldly things, encounters a difficulty, and resolves it through recognition of a non-worldly apodictic core of consciousness distinct from being in the real temporal, spatial, and causal world.

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  1. Mohanty (2011: 382, citing Cairns 1976: 75, dated May 11, 1932).

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Embree, L. The Way from the Ideal of Science: The Other Motivation for the Transcendental Phenomenological Reduction in the Doctoral Dissertation of Dorion Cairns. Hum Stud 35, 555–561 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-012-9236-y

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