It provides us with a definitive way to characterize and understand objects. To reject an object s relation to the physical seems to be asking for trouble. To make it worse, the objects aren t even treated as objects. That is to say they are considered as representations of objects in the theater of our minds. This is exactly the picture laid by the standard textbook gloss.
All phenomenology can do is describe feeble, fleeting, and personal events in consciousness.
It seems impossible to say such a theory would lay solid foundations for philosophy as rigorous science. Here we make a claim. If phenomenology is to hold ground as a legitimate science phenomena must not be viewed as finding its origin in consciousness. Phenomena appear in consciousness. They are separate from consciousness.