ABSTRACT

The logic of phenomenology would presumably be the set of deductive reasons why it is rationally convincing that one should adopt a phenomenological perspective. This chapter concerns itself with the logic in phenomenology. With regard to the special usage of the phrase 'phenomenological truth' that is characteristic of this present work, phenomenological truth refers to the nature of the quality or the characteristics of what appears to or in consciousness. Phenomenological validity status has to do with both the universality and the inevitability of the phenomenologically discovered truths. Neither are phenomenological truths transcendental conditions in the Kantian sense. A phenomenological truth is not transcendentally true in the sense that it is true because it is the condition for other or all other truths. How to possess truths without making any assumptions at all is the task which Plato set for philosophy and which remains for succeeding philosophers to complete.