Disengaging the Empirical
Absolute character
Modes of givenness
Psychological experience
A deteriorating plastic film on a store front window offers an abstract reality extraction.
“For it is the characteristic feature of nature and everything that falls under this title that it transcends experience not only in the sense that it is not absolutely given, but also in the sense that, in principle, it cannot be absolutely given, because it is necessarily given through presentations, through profiles, and the profiling presentation, in principle, cannot be a reduplication of that which is itself presented.” – Edmund Husserl