Next, because the genealogy of logic kept to the realm of cogitata and the acts of the ego as if to its proper existence and life; and these were read only on the basis of noematic signs and results, Now however, as stated in the Cartesian Meditations, it is a question of returning once more to the couple cogitocogitatum, if you will, in order to reapprehend the genesis of the ego itself, the ego existing for itself and continuously constituting itself as existing.