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In practice, it entails an unusual combination of discipline and detachment to suspend, or bracket, theoretical explanations and second-hand information while determining one's “ naive ” experience of the matter.

The phenomenological method serves to momentarily erase the world of speculation by returning the subject to his or her primordial experience of the matter, whether the object of inquiry is a feeling, an idea, or a perception.

According to Husserl the suspension of belief in what we ordinarily take for granted or infer by conjecture diminishes the power of what we customarily embrace as objective reality.

According to Rüdiger Safranski ( 1998, 72 ), “ and his followers ’ great ambition was to disregard anything that had until then been thought or said about consciousness or the world on the lookout for a new way of letting the things investigated approach them, without covering them up with what they already knew .”