Edmund Husserl's "phenomenological reduction," a sort of bracketing that allows for the suspension of an object or content of a thought, judgment, or perception, called "noema" (as well as eidetic reduction), is a helpful key in understanding Winquist's work. Maurice Merleau-Ponty also weighed in on bracketing, although primarily because he rejected Husserl's ideas. It is debated whether or not he rejected "reductionism", but it's worth noting that Merleau-Ponty's opposition to Husserl sparked his phenomenology of perception. Merleau-Ponty wrote the most important thing about the reduction, and Husserl's constant re-examination of its possibility, was its impossibility. Husserl himself said, according to Merleau-Ponty, that the effort made the philosopher a perpetual beginner who should never take anything for granted, that philosophy "is an ever-renewed experiment in making its own beginning, that it consists wholly in the description of this beginning..."