Genuine philosophy, whose idea is to realize the ultimate universal science, is phenomenology.

Die echte Philosophie, deren Idee es ist, letzte universale Wissenschaft zu verwirklichen, ist Phänomenologie.

Edmund Husserl

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Edmund Husserl

Austrian-German philosopher and mathematician (1859-1938), founder of phenomenology. His "phenomenological reduction" — bracketing assumptions to return "to the things themselves" — shaped Heidegger, Sartre, and others.

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