Eidetic
(Ger. eidetisch) In Husserl-
Of or pertaining to an eidos or to eide. Eidetic existentanything falling as an example within the ideal extension of a valid eidos; e.g., an ideally or purely possible individual. (Purely) eidetic judgmentsjudgments that do not posit individual existence, even though they are about something individual. Eidetic necessity an actual state of affairs, so far as it is a singularization of an eidetic universality. E.g., This color has (this) brightness, so far as that is a singularization of All eidetically possible examples of color have brightness. Eidetic possibility see eidos. Eidetic reductionsee Phenomenology. — D.C.