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Appresentation
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Appresentation is Husserl’s term for how another person’s experience is present without being given originally, as one’s own experience is. Pairing and confirmation do not make the other an inner copy.
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Husserl and Merleau-Ponty: experience, embodiment and a shared world · Lesson 4 of 9
How can another person be given to me?
Husserl explains how another person is given through the lived body, pairing and appresentation. The lesson follows his account without treating another person’s experience as something one possesses or copies.
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Husserl and Merleau-Ponty: experience, embodiment and a shared world
Follow Husserl and Merleau-Ponty from the appearance of a familiar thing to time, bodily skill, expression and other people. Test what their descriptions establish, where their methods differ and what still needs evidence or an ethical argument.