(or bracketing, or Einklammerung in German; or epoché) the act of suspending judgment about the natural world to instead focus on analysis of experience; developed as part of phenomenology by Edmund Husserl
the so-called 'phenomenological reduction', is Husserl's first important move. Everything not 'immanent' to consciousness must be rigorously excluded; all realities must be treated as pure 'phenomena', in terms of their appearances in our mind, and this is the only absolute data from which we can begin