Epoché (ἐποχή): The Suspension of Judgment from Ancient Skepticism to Phenomenology
Few philosophical gestures are as radical — and as productive — as the deliberate decision to withhold judgment. Epoché (ἐποχή), the suspension of assent, runs through the history of Western philosophy like a thread connecting ancient skepticism to contemporary phenomenology, passing through Cartesian doubt and British empiricism along the way. Born as a practice of life among the Pyrrhonian skeptics, who sought in it the tranquility of the soul, epoché was reclaimed twenty-three centuries later by Edmund Husserl as the founding method of phenomenology — the path to “the things themselves.” ...