Thus the sentence in my Ideas toward a Pure Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy which was able to give rise to objections when it was torn from the context of the presentation there of the phenomenological epoche, was completely correct: one can say of a simple tree that it burns up, but a perceived tree as such cannot burn up; that is, it is absurd to say this of it, for one is expecting a component of a pure perception, thinkable only as a moment belonging to an ego subject's own essence, to do something which can have meaning only for a wooden body: to burn up.