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'.