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ihrer Heimwelt mit der meinen fortschreiten kann. Wie komme ich, und
muss ich kommen, zu einer Ubergreifenden Einstimmigkeit?" (p. 234).)

The question is not, Husserl continues, who, in the immanence of
his experience, has a priority, but how "it is with the community of both
total-experiences in their possible or yet-to-be-instituted synthesis of
consistency.*' ("es mit der Gemeinschaft der beidseitigen Gesamter-
fahrungen in ihrer mOghchen Oder herzustellenden Synthesis der
Einstimmigkeit steht.") (p. 234). This is a task Husserl assigns to a
transcendental aesthetic, a transcendental ''Empiriographie" which projects
the idea of "an experience—and experiential world-structure of all
mankind." ("eine allmenschheitUch Erfahrungs-undErfahrungweltstruktur")
which is to serve as the "norm of the critique of relatively consistent
experiential worlds and meaning-worlds of any community of humans."
("Norm der Kritik der relativ einstimmigen Erfahrungswelten und
Meinungswelten irgendwelcher Menschheiten") (p. 235). This is a
transcendental task. This task requires thinking not alone about how my
homeworld is constituted, and then the eidetic notion of homeworld in
general, but also the "problem of critique of a homeworld against the
horizon of foreign home-worlds viz. the critique of a universal experience
which shall set up a unity—i.e., a true world—^which is to synthetically
combine all home-worlds." ("Problem der Kritik einer Heimwelt im
Horizont fremder Heimwelten, bzw. der Kritik einer universalen
Erfahrung, die iiber alle synthetisch zu verbindenden Heimwelten Einheit
herstellen soil, bzw. eine wahre Welt herstellen.") (p. 235). One of the
interesting concepts Husserl introduces in this connection is the idea of
a ''Zwischenheimatliche,'' and inevitably the problem of the possibility of
an infinity of home worlds "in mediated connection, in relation to the
problem of the constitution of one endless Nature out of the endless
home-world natures." ("in mittelbarem Konnex in Beziehung auf das
Problem der Konstitution einer unendUchen Natur aus den unendhchen
heimweltlichen Naturen.") (p. 236). Note that the question is not
regarding the factual existence of such worlds but about the essential
possibihties.

rv. Summary

I have questioned the ideas of the purely "my own" world and the
"purely" "foreign." By questioning these ideas, I have found no way of