 People's emotionality coheres to the structures they encounter in life.Winquist argued there is a life history of striving beyond the passage of actualities; emotional and objective understanding (the conceptional reality of the transcendental imagination), as well as subjective goals, and the primordial nature of God bring interpretive, foundational knowledge.Some have argued Winquist’s work is purely academic, at least regarding his posthumously published, “The Surface of the Deep”.