ABSTRACT
Martin Heidegger developed extensive considerations concerning the concept of knowledge and its relation to truth, but in view of moving beyond the theory of knowledge itself as well as beyond all formulations of the so-called "problem of knowledge". According to Edmund Husserl, the origin of both can be traced back to the work of Plato and his school. In short, so far, the theory of science appears articulated in a formal and in a material part, which both deal with the objective contents of science. The anthropological formulation, which is in its own right legitimate and must be scientifically pursued according to its own methods, fails to address the fundamental problem of transcendence, because it presupposes the existence of at least part of what is transcendent. Finally, in light of these conclusions, it appears that transcendental phenomenology can be considered as a Wissenschaftstheorie, and precisely as that Wissenschaftstheorie that consists in a study of the functions of consciousness.
