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The paper focuses on the ninth chapter of "The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology" entitled, "Galileo's Mathematization of Nature". The paper discusses Husserl's analysis of how the mathematization of nature came about and why it led to a crisis. The paper also explains Husserl's belief that science is a means of analysis of the world, but it will never be able to adequately describe the world as it is, nor our "being-in-the-World."

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"The life-world is "the world of lived experience," Lebenswelt. It is what you and I live on a daily basis. We do not need science to "be-in-the-World," to have experiences and memories. We perceive this "life-world" as ordered, and believe in the validity of scientific concepts like "cause and effect." We are told that "E=mc2" is true, and we believe it. At the same time, we recognize that the world often seems to defy the laws of science and mathematics - that it has a certain amount of "subjective reality" in it. Husserl writes that we are "aware of this discrepancy between our various ontic validities. But we do not think that, because of this, there are many worlds.""

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