Key Arguments

• Husserl states that from ‘the reference to harmonious infinities of further possible experience, starting from each world-experience’ it follows that ‘“actually existing Object” can have sense only as a unity meant and meanable in the nexus of consciousness’, so actuality‑for‑us requires that the object be an intentional unity across an open infinity of possible experiences.
• He adds that this unity would ‘be given as itself in a perfect experiential evidence’, explicitly tying the full sense of actuality to the (never fully realized) idea of a perfect experiential givenness that would unify all possible confirming experiences.
• On this basis he concludes that ‘an actual Object belonging to a world or, all the more so, a world itself, is an infinite idea, related to infinities of harmoniously combinable experiences’, thereby defining worldly objects and the world as such as infinite ideas — ideal poles of an endless horizon of possible harmonious experiences rather than finite, exhaustively presentable givens.

Source Quotes

Only an uncovering of the horizon of experience ultimately clarifies the “actuality” and the “transcendency” of the world, at the same time showing the world to be inseparable from transcendental subjectivity, which constitutes actuality of being and sense. The reference to harmonious infinities of further possible experience, starting from each world-experience — where “actually existing Object” can have sense only as a unity meant and meanable in the nexus of consciousness, a unity that would be given as itself in a perfect experiential evidence — manifestly signifies that an actual Object belonging to a world or, all the more so, a world itself, is an infinite idea, related to infinities of harmoniously combinable experiences — an idea that is the

Key Concepts

• The reference to harmonious infinities of further possible experience, starting from each world-experience — where “actually existing Object” can have sense only as a unity meant and meanable in the nexus of consciousness, a unity that would be given as itself in a perfect experiential evidence — manifestly signifies that an actual Object belonging to a world or, all the more so, a world itself, is an infinite idea, related to infinities of harmoniously combinable experiences — an idea that is the

Context

Closing sentences of the excerpt from §28, where Husserl synthesizes the preceding analysis of horizons, transcendence, and verification into a transcendental-idealistic thesis that worldly objects and the world are ‘infinite ideas’ correlated with an open infinity of harmonious possible experiences and a merely ideal perfect evidence.