0058 Subtle intelligence, explanation and application_2b virtually situate the content-level of hands-on social science_3a.

These three forms, which may be labeled, “hermeneutical reduction_2b“, acknowledge the conviction_3a that the phenomenologically elucidated noumenon_1a(1b) is objectified by its phenomena_1a.

The problem is the word, “subtle”.

Hermeneutical reduction_2b offends the attitude of the positivist intellect_3a.  It_2b offends the social science positivist intellect_3a even more, because it highlights the initial metaphysical… or shall I say… alchemic substitution of a mind-dependent being for a mind-independent entity.  The noumenon_1a(1b) of a social science is intersubjective.  Situation-level intersubjective beings_1b appeal to both the perspective_c and content_a levels of a three-level interscope.

0059 Ah, alchemy is already in play in the social sciences.

Even before the articulation of phenomenology_3b by Edmund Husserl (1859-1938 AD), phenomenological reduction_2b is practiced by the nascent social sciences_3a of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.  Even after Husserl_3b proposes the methods of phenomenological reduction_2b, most social scientists do not recognize it as foundational.

Why?

Husserl’s project_3b disappears as soon as a social science_2a is recognized as viable.  By the time a particular consensusregisters among social scientists in general, the particular noumenon_1a(1b) already has a specialized community_3a devoted to an empirio-schematic inquiry_2a of its phenomena_1a.  The originating phenomenological reduction_2b has completed its task and no longer occupies the situation level.

0060 What does this imply?

Phenomenology_3b situates the natural empirical sciences_2a, where the noumenon_1a is a mind-independent being.

Phenomenology_3b elucidates noumena_1a(b), whose phenomena_1a are studied by novel and social sciences_3a.  These noumena_1b are intersubjective beings_1b that are treated as if they are mind-independent beings_1a.  As such, these noumena_1a(1b) [can be objectified as] their phenomena_1a.

0061 How can phenomenology_3b be applied again to these second-order content-level hands-on sciences?

Can phenomenology_3b virtually situate its own creation_3a?