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HUSSERL'S PHENOMENOIjOGY AND LANGU AGE AS CALCULUS 121
discussed somewhat more fully. For instance, in a Supplement to §44
of Phenomenological Psychology 470 written in 1925, Husserl discusses
"the problem of the natural notion of world as the identical structure
that is valid for all people in their different environments (UmweU
fen)". 471 The problem is how two tenets can be reconciled: the idea
that different cultures live somehow in "different 'worlds 1 " 472 and
the idea that after all all cultures live in the same, one, world. This
sameness, Husserl thinks, cannot be guaranteed by the (natural)
sciences, since they do not belong to all life-worlds. Rather the
sameness of the one physical world is to be explained via general
structures in all different life-worlds. Members of different life-worlds
frame the world according to different schemes only in so far as specifically
cultural objects are concerned; yet their schemes necessarily
overlap as far as physical objects are concerned:
We do not share the same life-world with all human beings. Not
all human beings "in this world" share with us those objects that
make up our life-world and that determine our personal doing
and striving .. . 473
If we add to this [our] circle of human beings a Bantu negro,
then it is clear that he will see our work of art as some thing or
object but not as an object of our environment [Umwelt], as a
work of art .. . 474
It is this common "space-time" 478 framework of reference consisting
of physical objects that constitutes the objective world for different
life-worlds and that enables communication between different cultures:
Nevertheless, a single objective world runs through these different
worlds. One is conscious of this fact in that everyone can
communicate with any member of any life-world, and in that one
finds oneself in agreement with this other person with respect
to the same world .. . 476
In another manuscript from 1931/32 "Experience and Practice—Surrounding
World" 477 the steps by which we can understand
another life-world are explained in somewhat more detail. Beyond
the jointly perceived world in space and time, Husserl now especially