In extrapsychological life it is not unusual to pay attention sometimes to personal deeds and sufferings, sometimes to their sense (to what one has in mind ); and even in the sphere of the sciences we sometimes have, within certain limitations of interest, the thematics of explicating sense, as, for example, in philology, with its constant reflection and inquiry back into what the per son who used the words had in view in his speech, what his experiential, conceptual, practical meaning was, what he had in mind.