Talk:Epoché

Readers beware. This page is full of half-truths and misinformation. It more or less accurately describes epoche as it was meant by Husserl in service of his phenomenological method, but the term has its natural home in ancient Greek skepticism, especially the texts of Sextus Empiricus, where its meaning is rather different from the meaning Husserl gave to it. With respect to Sextus, it could be argued that virtually everything said in this article is wrong.

And 'Pyrrhonism' is _not_ the philosophy of Pyrrho. Confusing, yes, but true. 'Pyrrhonism' was a term coined by Aenesidemus, hundreds of years after Pyrrho's death, to describe the form of skepticism he advocated in opposition to the 'skepticism' of the Platonic Academy. The only Pyrrhonian texts that have come down to us are the texts of Sextus Empiricus, so 'Pyrrhonism' is generally understood to refer to skepticism advocated in those texts.

Delavagus (talk) 04:30, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

the text here does not describe it correctly.

I think Epoche is "suspension" - of judgement, and of action.

a web search for Epoche gave the following links.

http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/foldop/foldoc.cgi?epoch%E9

I have deleted the reference to Aristotle in this article since, based on my knowledge, Aristotle never uses this term in his works. If he does, a reference is required. According to the Liddell-Scott lexicon, Metrodorus coins the term in its philosophical sense. The article also, falsely, stated that Husserl reintroduced the term in his Cartesian Meditations. This is incorrect. He begins using the term in Ideas I, after reading fragments from the Greek skeptics. I do not, however, know the dates that these fragments would have been read by Husserl. However, the Metrodorus text where epoche is mentioned was available in 1890, translated into German by Koerte.