ABSTRACT
Natural knowledge begins with experience (Erfahrung) and remains within experience. Thus in that theoretical position which we call the “natural” standpoint, the total field of possible research is indicated by a single word: that is, the World. The sciences proper to this original 1 standpoint are accordingly in their collective unity sciences of the World, and so long as this standpoint is the only dominant one, the concepts “true Being”, “real (wirkliches) Being”, i.e., real empirical (reales) Being, and—since all that is real comes to self-concentration in the form of a cosmic unity—“Being in the World” are meanings that coincide.
