 Thus, all the acts of consciousness and all the objects of those acts can be placed in parentheses. The whole “natural” world or science insofar as it is a system of judgments carried out in a “natural manner”, is reduced to phenomenon. And here, a phenomenon does not mean what it does in Kant, for example, something that suggests another substantial something beyond it. Phenomenon here is simply the virtual character that every thing acquires when from its natural executive value one passes to contemplate it in a spectacular and descriptive posture, without giving it a definite character.