In describing his philosophical method, he often used the phrase "bracketing existence" and the example of his perception of an apple tree in his garden.  
In describing his philosophical method, he often used the phrase "bracketing existence" and the example of his perception of an apple tree in his garden.  Much of his early work was done under Carl Stumpf including the articles "On the Concept of the Number" and "On the Goals and Problems of Metaphysics," both of which he expounded upon in his first major work, Philosophy of Arithmetic.  More important is his Cartesian Meditations, which broadened the role of the philosophical system first introduced in his Logical Investigations.  FTP, name this German philosopher, the founder of phenomenology.
In describing his philosophical method, he often used the phrase "bracketing existence" and the example of his perception of an apple tree in his garden.  
Edmund Husserl