 Hence, philosophy, as transcendental critique (see  Section 1),  is “sharply distinguished from any kind of ‘psychologism’” and “maintains its rigorously objective character” (Natorp 1912c:  198).[31]  Why? Because its point of departure is the objective “formations” [Gestaltungen] of human culture, as objectivities, not as products of subjective psychological operations (Natorp 1912c: 198). In other words, philosophy always begins from the second-order phenomena.