Single Idea 7614

[catalogued under 1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 2. Phenomenology]

Full Idea

In effect, the device of bracketing subtracts entailments from the ordinary belief locution (the entailments that refer to what is external to the thinker's mind).

Gist of Idea

Bracketing subtracts entailments about external reality from beliefs

Source

report of Edmund Husserl (Logical Investigations [1900]) by Hilary Putnam - Reason, Truth and History Ch.2

Book Reference

Putnam,Hilary: 'Reason, Truth and History' [CUP 1998], p.28


A Reaction

This seems to leave phenomenology as pure introspection, or as a phenomenalist description of sense-data. It is also a refusal to explain anything. That sounds quite appealing, like Keats's 'negative capability'.