Hadot's own intellectual formation in Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty predisposes him to read Stoic exercises as phenomenological reduction rather than cognitive correction of false beliefs about objective value.

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Cognitive correction of false beliefs(an alternative interpretation of what Stoic exercises are): The process of identifying mistaken thoughts you have and replacing them with accurate ones, especially about what things are really worth or valuable.
Hadot(the subject of the statement): Pierre Hadot was a French philosopher who studied ancient philosophy, especially the Stoics, and argued that ancient philosophy was less about abstract theories and more about practical exercises to transform how people live.
Heidegger(as the philosopher who transformed hermeneutics): Martin Heidegger was a 20th-century German philosopher who fundamentally changed how we think about understanding and existence; he's famous for asking 'what does it mean to be?'
Intellectual formation(describes how Hadot was trained as a philosopher): The education and philosophical influences that shaped how someone thinks and what ideas they were taught to value.

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