ABSTRACT
The pure forms of wholes and parts are determined according to the pure form of the laws. Only that which is formally general in the relationship of foundation as it is expressed in the definition comes in question therewith, as well as the a priori complexes which it makes possible. The concept part is construed so widely that everything may be called a part which is distinguishable 'in' an object, or to put it objectively, is 'present' in it. Everything is a part which the object 'has' in a 'real' sense, in the sense of a something really making it up, the object being taken as it is by itself, in abstraction from all contexts in which it is interwoven. The distinction between independent and dependent contents has arisen historically in the domain of psychology, or more exactly, in the domain of the phenomenology of inner experience.
