Bracketing is the essential cognitive act enabling all three Kantian domains of experience

Evidence

Thus essential to the aesthete is the constant exercise of bracketing, for without bracketing none of the three domains, making up all our experience of the world, can be accessed. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 335

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains the role of bracketing as the enabling mechanism for Kant’s realms of cognition, ethics, and taste.
• XREF: connects to: The epoché brackets reality to focus on lived experience itself — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 146; Phenomenology demanded a transformative mode of thinking that also yielded concrete results — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 150