His argument is that reality is known through the re-construction of the transcendental ego , which is then able to differentiate between the ego and the transcendental object. It is through philosophical reflections that the ego and the object can be explored, but they are explored as re-constructed forms, one being dialectically presented against the other. In this way knowledge of objects transcends direct experience and objects, or phenomena become the conscious experience itself. The world as known, therefore, becomes the world of the transcendental object, known only through dialectical phenomenological experience of juxtaposition against the ego as object. For Husserl there can be no knowledge of a reality without the transcendenta l creation of phenomena.
Reality can be a contemplated re-construction only when it becomes a knowledge form.
Husserl argued for critical contemplation so that pure knowledge forms could be gained. In many ways it is arguable that his view of reality is a classical realist one. His view of knowledge is transcendental. He is inferring a juxtaposition of the implied reality concept with the psychologically re-constructed concept of the transcendental object. His main contribution to ideas on ontology is that reality is to be explored through the exploration of transcendenta l experiences rather than through an exploration of a notionally objective reality.