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“Demolition” (Abbau) is next taken with respect to the causal sense of the previously reached primordial thing and thus the level of phantoms is reached. These have manners of givenness, there are motivational-functional relations between kinaesthetic processes and organ-phantoms and non-organic phantoms. Then how the causal level is founded on the phantomic level can be investigated in detail. How to go deeper via hyletic reduction is also described, there being a unique intimacy between hyletic data and kinaesthesia.
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Cf. Chap. 12, p. 117.
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The analogy is the author’s.
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The sensuous basis or “material” for perceiving the phantom sound is identical with the sensuous material for hearing the real sound. Similarly, the sensuous basis for perceiving real color-patches (color-states of the screen); is the same as the sensuous basis for perceiving three dimensional phantoms. (On the sensory basis of sense-perception, see pp. 163–186.)
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By the primordial reduction terminal phantoms are reduced along with the rest of the intersubjective world. On the primordial level we find primordial phantoms, as analogues of the intersubjective level. Had our analyses in Chap. 14 been complete, we should have already analyzed sense-perception of the primordial terminal phantom.
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We are not, of course, suggesting that the earth is grasped in sheer sense perception as determined by the general sense “gravitational field.”
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Such positing of an emptily given but potentially perceived object-movement is found also on the causal as well as on the schematic level. [There is a handwritten note beneath this stating: “Already said.”—L.E.]
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Cf. pp. 51ff.
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P. 117.
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This is a founding condition for intersubjective “normality,” not an a priori necessity. It is ideally possible that one eye see another eye belonging to the same body.
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The example is the author’s.
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It must not be thought that the epochēs performed in pursuance of the method of demolitions have an easily determinable (transcendental and psychological) genetic significance. Indeed, we would not now raise the problem of whether or not they have any genetic significance. Yet if it be granted that, e.g., the ego must constitute (in immanent transcendental or psychological time) the schematic [phantasmic] before he can constitute the primordial level, and the latter before he can constitute the intersubjective level, there would remain the problem of whether the preschematic levels appended reveal clearly that on the visual level the ego has no body. He is not inside the visual world. Assuming that such analyses have genetic significance, it would then seem to be indicated that the “first” organism and the “first” environment are constituted, in the tactual sphere, where the organ (of touch) is constituted pari passu with the outside object, and the ego is “in” his world from the beginning. The considerations in the present footnote and in the main text, the drawing of the evident consequence that there is no purely visually constituted organ of vision have not been found in Husserl’s books or manuscripts, though he expressed himself in conversation as in agreement with the author’s views.
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It may be doubted that in itself, i.e., apart from the constitution of intersensuous unities, the tone has “far” and “near” orientation, but it seems evident that it is intrinsically “right” or “left.” The author has not seen Husserl’s analysis of hearing, and must take the responsibility for the here presented applications of Husserl’s general principles to the sphere of audition.
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Husserl has made the constitution of a binocular visual world the theme of extensive analysis which exist only in manuscripts. These were among the many which the author has had no opportunity to study properly. It can be said, however, that Husserl’s analysis goes much further than we have been able to indicate.
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Rest is the null value of motion, until there is perceived motion there is no rest.
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Transcendent objects and their objective senses are founded in hyletic data, but not in kinaesthesia.
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Cairns, D., Embree, L. (2013). The Founding Strata of Primordial Sense-Perception. In: Embree, L. (eds) The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl. Phaenomenologica, vol 207. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5043-2_15
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