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Up to now, we have been discussing the way we intuit objects. If we cannot intuit a thing’s parts, then we cannot intuit the whole thing.
Husserl addresses the psychologist's perspective on this matter. They would distinguish real from supposed intuitions. Consider the route taking us from
The representation – for the most part unclear – that we have when we consider the figure from some one viewpoint is not what we intend by the “intuition of the figure.” (146-147)
None of the partial intuitions are intuitions of the whole object. They only provide the constituents for the whole object’s constitution.
Strictly speaking, it serves us only as a basis for the creation of the objective unity in which ideally all parts and moments, such as we acquire them with the most favorable choice of viewpoint, which changes for each moment, are contained. The alleged momentary intuition of the object as it really is, is therefore reduced to a flow of intuition in which we assure ourselves of the different sides, parts, and relations in their most complete phases of variation, i.e., those most satisfying to our predominant interests. (147a, emphasis mine)
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