Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.

I must achieve internal consistency.

All perception is a gamble.

Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.

All consciousness is consciousness of something

Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.

Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.