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‘Kant’s additional positing of an existent and essentially hidden ‘thing-in-itself’- if, indeed, this is what the concept denotes- is therefore superfluous. Thus, what Ricoeur takes to be the essence of Kantianism, Husserl interprets it as its most glaring inconsistency.’

‘...for Husserl, the mere suggestion of the possibility that the world may be an illusion introduces a flicker. It suddenly makes conspicuous the fact that the real world has appeared to us all along as the real world; and now this appearing itself comes into relief.’

‘Paul Ricoeur...observes an “implicit phenomenology behind the Kantian epistemology”...Ricoeur goes on to argue that Husserl, for his part, merely frees this embryonic phenomenology and allows it to mature. This, it seems to me, is a useful way to understand Husserlian phenomenology.’