{"id":5111,"date":"2021-09-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=5111"},"modified":"2022-05-07T23:05:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T23:05:43","slug":"comments-on-mark-spencers-essay-by-razie-mah-at-smashwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=5111","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Mark Spencer&#8217;s Essay (2021) &#8220;The Many Phenomenological Reductions&#8221; (Part 2 of 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0006 The scenario depicted in the prior blog appears in&nbsp;<em>Comments on Mark Spencer&#8217;s Essay (2021) &#8220;The Many Phenomenological Reductions&#8221;<\/em>, available for purchase at smashwords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Search for Razie Mah, Mark Spencer, and phenomenological reductions.&nbsp;&nbsp;The electronic article in smashwords, or some other electronic literature venue, should appear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0007 The engagement between phenomenology and science is delicate.&nbsp;&nbsp;Phenomenologists attend to the same phenomena as scientists.&nbsp;&nbsp;But, they do not compete with scientists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists directly situate phenomena using the empirio-schematic judgment (which is first diagrammed in&nbsp;<em>Comments on Jacques Maritain&#8217;s Book (1935) Natural Philosophy<\/em>), in the normal context of a positivist intellect.&nbsp;&nbsp;The positivist intellect has a rule.&nbsp;&nbsp;Metaphysics is not allowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Phenomenologists sidestep science, by contemplating phenomena, while reducing their field of consciousness to exclude the machinations of science, among other distractions.&nbsp;&nbsp;The goal is to identify&nbsp;<em>what the thing itself must be<\/em>, without any metaphysical baggage&#8230; er&#8230; I mean&#8230; terminology.&nbsp;&nbsp;Anything that sounds like metaphysics will raise the ire of scientists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0008 It is like tiptoeing around a sleeping dog.&nbsp;&nbsp;The metaphorical dog protects science against metaphysics.&nbsp;&nbsp;It has been known to gnaw on the bones of its victims, especially the ones who uttered the word, &#8220;hylomorphism&#8221;.&nbsp;&nbsp;That word sounds totally metaphysical.&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Hyle&#8221; is Greek for &#8220;matter&#8221;.&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Morphe&#8221; is Greek for &#8220;form&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To the sleeping dog of science, physics is the master of the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The master of the house says, &#8220;No metaphysics.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0006 The scenario depicted in the prior blog appears in&nbsp;Comments on Mark Spencer&#8217;s Essay (2021) &#8220;The Many Phenomenological Reductions&#8221;, available for purchase at smashwords. 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