Epoché (ἐποχή) — “Suspension of judgment.” In Pyrrhonian skepticism, it is the abstention from affirming or denying any proposition about reality, leading to ataraxia. Husserl redeployes the term in phenomenology: the phenomenological reduction (“bracketing the world”) suspends the natural thesis of the world’s existence to investigate the pure structure of consciousness and its intentional acts.
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