 Clearly, Husserl’s idea of Lebenswelt was the kind of notion that Ortega discussed in his own philosophy of human life. But this affinity in thought does not negate minor differences between the two thinkers. Discussions in Cartesian Meditations of the problem of other people, or intersubjectivity, and of the world as a world essentially inhabited by “others” was conceivably the part of Heidegger’s philosophy which had the profoundest effect on the development of Existential Phenomenology and Ortega’s thought. Ortega took issue with a small point on the role of the notion “analogical transposition” concerning the “Other”, which was made in the fifth meditation, yet he did not consider this point to be diametrically opposed to his notion of human life. “Husserl”, he remarked at one point in his Man and People (1939–40),