The following thoughts were taken from Meinong's literary remains:¹ In the theory of knowledge, the degree of knowledge is the relationship between knowing and that which is known. In the beginning there is perception and its object.² This relationship is a "basic fact," and the theory of knowledge must state it as such. "It cannot be defined what the object of our knowledge of reality is, it can only be experienced." That is the problem of transcendence.³ With the problem of transcendence, the theory of knowledge has, to its own disadvantage, "tied a knot, and by adding new loops has created for itself a never ending maze." Alexander's action should be imitated: It should simply be stated as a fundamental and characteristic property of existential knowledge that it is able to transcend.⁴