 Metaphysical realism. Early phenomenologists consider the world to be made, in large part, of a variety of objects that are intentionality-independent. Accordingly, these objects exist independently of a subject that might know them (regardless of how the notion of the subject is conceived of). It is important to remark that this position does not exclude the existence of objects, which are intentionality-dependent: artefacts and social objects like institutional facts (promissory commitments, institutions, etc.) exist precisely because there are individuals or communities that intentionally create them. Interestingly, it is assumed that, regardless of its relation to intentionality, the existence of an object always implies the possibility for this object to be known by a cognizer, which is why (at least in principle) all objects and their properties are intelligible.