ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discusses in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents the phenomenological epistemology and phenomenological metaphysics. It discusses 'The Forgotten Fourth', a necessary phase in every act of representational knowledge. The existence of metaphysical questions suggests that such questions can be answered, or at least leads one to such inquiries or contemplative insights that provide meaning in life. Philosophy has been prisoner, for much of the twentieth century, the passing of which has just been witnessed, of Wittgenstein's concept that philosophical problems were the result of the distorting influence of language. In this, the 20th century was Ludwig Wittgenstein's century and philosophy was his prisoner. Wittgenstein thought that philosophical problems were pseudo-problems due to the distorting influence of language, such that, as one became aware of misleading properties of language, the "philosophical problems" would disappear.
