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Our guiding question throughout has been and is: How does the actual exist, and how do we arrive at it? Our broadening of the problem of sense, mentioned above, has led us directly to the answer. This answer, however, still needs elucidation from a new direction in order for its universal, fundamentally philosophical significance to be understood. As we shall see, insofar as it is a matter of the noema's logical, explicit stratum the discovery of the noematic sense gives us a general method for solving the formulated question. But its peculiar sense is elucidated by going deeper into the problem, to its ultimate philosophical source. To raise our question in light of the fundamental philosophical doubt and to show what role the question plays in the resolution of this doubt means at the same time to show its significance as the starting point for positive philosophizing. Finally, the tasks of phenomenology as the fundamental science find in this their final formulation and determination.

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-3292-3_7

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