The existence of the world as an irrational and “rational” fact

This article reconstructs and defends Husserl's argument for the indubitability of the existence of the world as grounded in ultimate principles . Responding to criticisms about the feasibility of a Husserlian‐informed metaphysical cosmology, it offers a systematic account that explores the question of the world's existence at three distinct levels ( factual‐empirical , eidetic, and transcendental ), leading to a threefold characterization of the world. First, the obviousness of the world's existence serves as our point of departure. The analysis then moves from a conception of the world as (i) an ontic factum and pregiven ground of all theoretical and practical endeavors in the natural attitude, to a priori ontological considerations of (ii) the essence of “world in general.” However, the insufficiency of both factual‐empirical and a priori investigations necessitates a further displacement of the analysis into the transcendental field of pure phenomena. In accordance with the fundamental principle of synthesis, the world is thus reconceived of as (iii) a phenomenological factum. In this context, the clarification of the existence of the world as both an irrational and a “ rational ” fact provides all the elements necessary to demonstrate the relative apodicticity and empirical indubitability of the world. This justifies our doxic certainty of the world's existence

Argument (complex analysis) · Certainty · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Irrational number · Metaphysics · Ontic · Transcendental number · History · Mathematics · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy and Historical Thought · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism

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