GLOSSARY

Bracketing: The method adopted by Husserl to isolate the essences, which are conceived as the fundamental data of all knowledge. These essences are those which are directly given to the consciousness and they are non-contingent and pure. To capture them we have top isolate them by the employment of bracketing, which involves of a suspension of all our beliefs. We bracket our natural attitude and all scientific conceptions about the world and approach it without any presuppositions.

Presuppositionless philosophy: Phenomenology has been conceived as a presuppositionless philosophy. All other disciplines and sciences presuppose certain things. Sciences for example adopt a specific attitude towards the world and takes for granted many things like the existence of sense-data, the existence of factual world etc. but phenomenology is concerned about the fundamental data of all knowledge. These data are to be found in the consciousness to which they are directly given. Phenomenology tries to capture them and hence it is conceived as a presuppositionless philosophy.

Things in themselves: For Husserl they are the essences which are directly given to the conscious ness and are the ultimate data of all knowledge. But Immanuel Kant had conceived it in a different manner. For Kant they are essentially unknowable, but are presupposed by the phenomenal world. For Husserl they are knowable and he asserted that they re the basic data of knowledge.