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Full Idea
Phenomenology demands the most perfect freedom from presuppositions and, concerning itself, an absolute reflective insight.
Gist of Idea
Phenomenology needs absolute reflection, without presuppositions
Source
Edmund Husserl (Ideas: intro to pure phenomenology [1913], III.1.063), quoted by Victor Velarde-Mayol - On Husserl 3.1
Book Ref
Velarde-Mayol,Victor: 'On Husserl' [Wadsworth 2000], p.41
A Reaction
As an outsider, I would have thought that the whole weight of modern continental philosophy is entirely opposed to the aspiration to think without presuppositions.