We are to understand, then, that it is the apprehension of a certain hyl as indicating a phenomenon of a higher degree, the Sinngebung, or active meaning giving operation which may be said to define consciousness, so that the world is nothing but 'world as meaning', and the phenomenological reduction is idealistic, in the sense that there is here a transcendental idealism which treats the world as an indivisible unity of value shared by Peter and Paul, in which their perspectives blend. '