Abstract
The appeal to experience (in the sense to be specified below) is the central demand of the phenomenology of Husserl, and his phenomenology, of course, fulfills this demand in its own way. Husserl is a great critic of all those mathematical-formal systems of thought with a claim to autonomy.1 Real autonomy can be reached only in the realm of experience which is full of phenomena in the sense of being "bodily given" (Selbstgebung). The formal-logical-mathematical evidence has to be traced back to the most original one which is given in the absolute realm of experience. Husserl's phenomenology of experience does not end with his description of pre-predicative experience; it culminates in his philosophy of "transcendental experience".