ABSTRACT
Immanuel Kant’s task was complicated by the fact that he was also at the same time endeavoring to explain how one could account for the sense experience of the empirical world. If one exempts the pure phenomenologist from this latter task, then the pure phenomenologist is under no obligation to show how processes, whether transcendental or psychological, have something to do with constituting the empirical world. The synthesis of which is spoken has nothing whatsoever to do with a psychological act. The certainty that accompanies the understanding that ‘whatever has shape has size’ has nothing whatsoever to do with the psychological state of the mind of the subject knower. The certainty which accompanies the act of knowing that whatever has shape has size is provided by the ingredient of the knowledge that is not conceptually derived.
