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bracketing: a standalone construct

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Phenomenology

Suspending belief in the world to study experience

In phenomenology bracketing, Husserl's epoché, is the methodical setting-aside of one's natural belief in whether the world exists so that attention falls purely on how things appear in consciousness. In Ideas Husserl likens it to putting the question of existence in brackets, neither affirming nor denying it, to reach the structures of experience itself. The metaphor is the mathematician's parenthesis that holds a term apart, and this is the oldest clearly dated meaning of the word as a method. The referent is a philosophical move of suspending judgment, unrelated to a run of camera exposures or a slice of the income scale.[1]

Unit
The disciplined suspension of the belief that the perceived world exists
Recovery means
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Measured by
Not a measured quantity; practised as a methodological step and judged by the description it yields

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References

  1. Husserl, E. (2012). Ideas: General introduction to pure phenomenology (W. R. Boyce Gibson, Trans.). Routledge. (Original work published 1913) ISBN 9780415519038

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