Phenomenology offers the most compelling attempt to chart a path beyond both the “empiricist” and the “intellectualist” traditions. Our experience of things, contrary to what empiricism maintains, constantly urges us beyond their sensible manifestations; yet, against intellectualism, things are not exhausted by their appearances, nor are they mere units of order produced by judgment (cf. PP, 45–46). Still, the route opened by phenomenology is not without difficulties: the appearing of the thing is never fully resolved in the “here and now” perception of an aspect, nor solely through judgment. The form of the “thing” cannot be reduced either to consciousness or to an abstract synthesis of its constituent elements; it is through the “meaning bestowal” (Sinngebung) that such categories become possible.