The eidetic reduction is an analysis of essence or ideals, It is performed by cycling through different elements of a mental reproduction for a given phenomenon to define its key characteristics.
The transcendental reduction is a general examination and dissection of experience derived from the mind which is supplied by the given sensate intuitions, acknowledging its taken for grantedness. This, the reduction proper, is the realization of and acceptance that the world as we know it is taken for granted; everything is a signifier.
Signifiers represent patterns, we use them to recognize; We signify existence, one pattern at a time.
From the philosophy of Edmund Husserl (1859β1938), German philosopher and founder of phenomenology.