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HUSSERL'S PHENOMENOIjOGY AND LANGU AGE AS CALCULUS
ontological commitments at one fell swoop, Husserl has described in
various different ways, some of which he later recognized as being
highly problematic. For instance, in Ideas I (1913) he spoke of the
"suspension of the world-thesis" 283 , a locution that in a manuscript
written about 1924 he regarded as misleading, since it is not the
world as such that is dropped, but naturalistic commitments vis-ivis
the world. 284 Another misleading expression was to speak—as
Husserl did in 1907—of an "index of questionability" 285 that is attached
to the world. This is potentially misleading since the existence
of the world is not questioned in the reduction, rather the belief in the
existence of the world is not used in the process of phenomenological
analysis. This is already formulated clearly in the same early work:
"Even if I could be wholly certain that there are transcendent worlds,
even if I accept the whole content of the sciences of a natural sort,
even then I cannot borrow from them." 286 Other famous locutions
are "not-having-as-theme" 287 , "universal depriving of acceptance
('inhibiting 1 , 'putting out of play')" 288 , "index zero" 289 , "index of
indifference" 290 , "bracketing" 291 , and "neutrality-modification". 292
The problem of finding the right word here is the problem of finding
an expression which makes clear that the reduction leaves something
for us to study, and that it is not sceptical. That the reduction has
nothing to do with scepticism is stressed, e.g., in the following passage:
Not as if we wished sceptically to deny or to surrender the facts
of our experience and the existence of the world which is experienced
in it. We do not alter our conviction at all; we have no
motive for doing so, and therefore no possibility. 293
The question as to what remains after the transcendental reduction
has been carried out demands somewhat more extensive
consideration. Initially, when first employing the reduction in the
"Seefeld Manuscripts" in 1905, Husserl seems to have held that
what remains is nothing but "the pure sense-datum" 294 , a position
that Husserl himself saw as having close affinity with Mach's
positivism. 295 However, by the time of his Ideas /, after extensive
studies on Kant 296 , Husserl could define the "residuum" differently:
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