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Eidetic variation

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Eidetic variation uses imagination to examine what might stay invariant across examples. Familiarity with an example is not by itself proof of necessity.

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Husserl and Merleau-Ponty: experience, embodiment and a shared world · Lesson 2 of 9
What changes when we bracket the world?
Husserl brackets the ordinary acceptance of the world and varies examples in imagination to find what cannot change. What could warrant the move from an apparent invariant to a necessity?

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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.