Wednesday, December 25, 2013
It seems appropriate to say that phenomenology is "metalogical." On the one hand phenomenology happens prior to logic -- as in the apprehension of essences, i.e., eidetic intuition -- but on the other hand posterior to logic -- as in reflection of the nature of logic as a complete organism. Logic is properly something which happens in the natural attitude: it is propositional reflection. Phenomenology transcends argumentation to the realm or "space" of truthfulness, of truth as known or as mine. Certainly there is a continuous dialectic and dialogue between logical and phenomenological (metalogical) thought. Appropriating the medieval categories, one might say that logic is Ratio and phenomenology is Intellectus.
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