 In this manner, by 1925, Ortega’s ambivalence towards adopting a phenomenological method became apparent in his search for a coherent method of analysis. He was willing to retain the “synthetic” (or “intuitive”) function of phenomenological analysis provided that this function in turn becomes integrated into the systematic phenomenon of “human life”. Through this connection, the phenomenological method of analysis, and the analysis of human life experiences, performed interchangeable functions for Ortega in the systematic apprehension of the traditional problem of being. This explains the positive side of the ambivalence which prompted him to approach and accept phenomenology. However, on the other side of the ambivalence, he avoided phenomenology where the emphasis appears to be on the abstract in the tradition of idealism. His critical response to Husserl’s Formal and Transcendental Logic (1929) [1969] identified this tendency in phenomenology.