cogitationes. The being of the cogitatio — more precisely, the phenomenon of knowledge itself — is beyond question and free of the riddle of transcendence. Such existences are already presupposed in the initial statement of the problem of knowledge. The question of how the transcendent enters into knowledge would surely forfeit its sense if not only the transcendent but also knowledge itself were given up. It is also clear that cogitationes present a sphere of absolutely immanent givenness, whatever else we might mean by "mmanence." In the seeing of the pure phenomenon the object is not external to knowledge, or to "consciousness"; rather, it is given in the sense of the absolute self-givenness of what is simply seen." /> Lecture III - Husserl Edmund | sdvig press