eidetic reduction

1. Popular treason or the crime of betrayal. 2. (obs.) A method
which serves to disconnect the general thesis of the natural
attitude, which is the thesis that the natural world exists. This thesis
can be asserted, denied, or doubted. To doubt the existence of an
object is to disconnect the thesis of the object (see Husserl).
Eidetic reduction requires, therefore, a sort of splitting of the ego.
While noting my conviction of the general thesis, I can bracket this
conviction to use eidetic reduction. This act of bracketing is known
as epokhe or abstention.

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