Chapter 1: Transcendence and Absence

What about the donation of the transcendent thing? This is delivered by means of the givenness of an ungiven, the presence of an absence (given as such). For the same content is both a lived experience (the appearance) and a mere adumbration of something that transcends the lived experience (what appears). This is supported by the analysis of the Husserlian theory of confirmation. By virtue of this specific mode of donation, only the being of the transcendent thing is not given. The transcendent thing is thus present itself, but without its being. This is why bracketing the being of the transcendent thing does not take anything away from the donation of the transcendent thing, which legitimizes the phenomenological reduction.