ABSTRACT
The school of the “Philosophy of Immanence” has developed this fundamental thesis to the point of absurdity. The so-called “Philosophy of the Given,” or “Philosophy of Immanence,” of E. Laas contemporary, Wilhelm Schuppe, represented a much more penetrating attempt to work out the conclusions of psychological empiricism. In order to explain the formation of empirical objects and empirical subjects out of the amorphous matter of which the substance of the world consists, Schuppe was compelled to postulate a kind of agglutination of this substance into spheres and fragments. Schuppe completely loses sight of the real character of the synthesis of knowledge; he regards this synthesis as a mere given fact to be analysed, and science or knowledge as a crystallized fact whose composition is to be studied from outside. The distinction which critical empiricism draws between the immediately given and thought appears to his to represent a great advance upon Schuppe.
