 The first arises out the thinker's conception of what phenomenology is, which is a study of the possibilities of the consciousness.This underpins one of his characterization of the phaneron as whatever is before the mind or whatever can or could be before the mind.Another concern stems from Peirce's belief that we can only study our own consciousness so aside from the previous characterization, he also referred to phaneron as whatever is before the reader's mind.