But whether the perception has the mode of an observing and explicating act or the mode of passively being conscious of the unnoticed background of what is directly observed, one thing is clear: whether the perceived object exists or not, whether the perceiving person is mistaken about this or not, and also whether I, the psychologist, who in my empathetic understanding of the person unhesitatingly concur in the belief in the perceived object am mistaken about it or not this must remain irrelevant for me as a psychologist.