 Three of the five sections of the review elaborated on certain aspects of Husserl’s phenomenology, in a general sense, as the pure description of essences. In view of this characterization of phenomenology as “descriptive psychology,” Ortega emphasized the importance of distinguishing the essential individual intuition of Husserl’s “pure description” of essence in the Ideas from what he termed the mistaken definition of phenomenology as a descriptive psychology that some philosophers tend to interpret in Husserl’s Logische Untersuchungen (Obras, I: 249, 251). Psychological statements, for Ortega, have to be distinguished from the purely descriptive statements of phenomenology on the grounds that psychology concerns itself with facts and statements and are therefore empirical; on the other hand, phenomenology, as formulated in a clearer formula in Husserl’s Ideas, concerns itself with “consciousness”, human consciousness. Through this formulation, Ortega contended, it