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(2001) Analyses concerning passive and active synthesis, Dordrecht, Springer.

Self-giving in perception

Edmund Husserl

pp. 39-62

External perception is a constant pretension to accomplish something that, by its very nature, it is not in a position to accomplish. Thus, it harbors an essential contradiction, as it were.My meaning will soon become clear to you once you intuitively grasp how the objective sense exhibits itself as unity the unending manifolds of possible appearances; and seen upon closer inspection, how the continual synthesis, as a unity of coinciding, allows the same sense to appear, and how a consciousness of ever new possibilities of appearance constantly persists over against the factual, limited courses of appearance, transcending them.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-0846-4_11

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Husserl, E. (2001). Self-giving in perception, in Analyses concerning passive and active synthesis, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 39-62.

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