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definition: epoche

• the epoche is a form of suspense of judgment,
• a way to let the phenomena speak while `bracketing' the usual presuppositions that are in force in any given situation.

• There is an experience in which it is possible for us to come to the world with no knowledge or preconceptions in hand;
• it is the experience of astonishment.
  • The “knowing” we have in this experience stands in stark contrast to
  • the “knowing” we have in our everyday lives, where we come to the world with
    • theory and
    • “knowledge” in hand,
    • our minds already made up before we ever engage the world.
• However, in the experience of astonishment,
  • our everyday “knowing,” when compared to
  • the “knowing” that we experience in astonishment,
• is shown up as a pale epistemological imposter and is reduced to mere opinion by comparison.
• The phenomenological reduction (aka epoche)
• is at once
  • a description and
  • prescription
• of a technique that allows one to voluntarily sustain the awakening force of astonishment
  • so that conceptual cognition can be carried throughout intentional analysis,
  • thus bringing the “knowing” of astonishment into our everyday experience.