Husserl proposed a radical new phenomenological way of looking at objects by examining how we in our many ways of being intentionally directed toward them , actually `` constitute '' them ( to be distinguished from materially `` creating objects or objects '' . <!-- this could be hidden right now.... merely being figments of the imagination ..> In the Phenomenological standpoint , the object ceases to be something simply `` external '' and ceases to be seen as providing indicators about what it is , and becomes a grouping of perceptual and functional aspects that imply one another under the idea of a particular object or `` type '' . Husserl proposed a radical new phenomenological way of looking at objects by examining how we , in our many ways of being intentionally directed toward them , actually `` constitute '' them ( to be distinguished from materially creating objects or objects merely being figments of the imagination ) ; in the Phenomenological standpoint , the object ceases to be something simply `` external '' and ceases to be seen as providing indicators about what it is , and becomes a grouping of perceptual and functional aspects that imply one another under the idea of a particular object or `` type '' .