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149241

Conclusion

Suzanne Cunningham

pp. 92-99

Abstrakt

Edmund Husserl's phenomenology was an attempt to achieve the Cartesian goal of absolutely certain foundations for knowledge by providing a new methodology, the application of a triple-faceted reduction. By this means he hoped to eliminate unjustifiable presuppositions and uncover the basis for every possible science and metaphysics. In the foregoing chapters it has been shown that while Husserl succeeded in eliminating some unjustifiable presuppositions, he himself was guilty of incorporating others into his method. Further, his attempt to provide apodictically certain foundations for knowledge on epistemological grounds alone has been shown to fail because language itself incorporates an ontology. Finally, because language is operant within the reductions and is formative of one's experience, Husserl has not been able to provide the basis for every possible science or metaphysics. A brief re-examination of the three aspects of the complete phenomenological epoché will justify these conclusions.

Publication details

Published in:

Cunningham Suzanne (1976) Language and the phenomenological reductions of Edmund Husserl. Dordrecht, Springer.

Seiten: 92-99

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-1389-5_6

Referenz:

Cunningham Suzanne (1976) Conclusion, In: Language and the phenomenological reductions of Edmund Husserl, Dordrecht, Springer, 92–99.