The basic idea and other preliminaries

pp. 5-10

in: Jeffrey Yoshimi, Husserlian phenomenology, Berlin, Springer, 2016

Abstract

In this chapter the basic idea of the book is presented in an intuitive way, using the metaphor of a world-model that experience "moves through." This metaphor illuminates an explanatory dimension of phenomenology, whereby what we actually experience is informed by what expect to be the case in a given part of the world. Qualifications and simplifying assumptions are stated, and the project is related to existing efforts to formalize phenomenological structures.