Why There Is No Remainder Left After the Husserlian Weltvernichtung

This is an article that aspires to refute Husserl’s well-known aphorism in Ideas I, namely that absolute consciousness is what is left after the annihilation of the world. This claim, taken as meaning that the validity of existence of the objective world is delegated to the non-eliminable presence of a constituting and meaning giving transcendental consciousness, is challenged primarily on phenomenological-ontological and next on epistemological grounds. Concerning the former, I draw attention among others to certain deficiencies of the transcendental reduction process which leave room for certain mundaneity concerns that may reach to the conception of transcendental consciousness itself. Concerning the latter, I have relied to a significant extent on the epistemological content of some concrete phenomena of the quantum world to show that there might be some kind of “reality” beyond the one captured by the available means of detection and further objectification by a human consciousness. The overall intention is to show that there exists a non-eliminable part of the world at large lying in a non-contingent sense beyond the scope of a transcendental consciousness.