It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.

He broke with the positivist orientation of the science and philosophy of his day yet he elaborated critiques of historicism and of psychologism in logic. Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (German: [ˈhʊsɐl]; April 8 1859 – April 26 1938) was a philosopher and mathematician and the founder of the 20th century philosophical school of phenomenology.