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comprised in a proper whole is foundationally connectedmediately or immediately, reciprocally or one-sidedly with every other part or content comprised by that same whole. The whole is the lawful, interconnected unity of founding and founded moments. There is no additional moment of unity over and above this interconnected unity of moments. The unity arises out of the non-independence of the parts, out of their need for supplementation by specific contents in conformity with law. Such contents are by their very nature intimately united with one another. T he mere necessity of coexistence the dem and b y o ne moment for supplementation by anotheris sufficient to produce the unity of a whole. T he who le is just the interconnected unity of founding and founded moments, and its unity is just the lawful interconnections of moments. Conversely, where it makes no sense to speak of the separate existence of any part within a whole, there is no need for an additional principle that might account for the unity of the parts comprised by that whole. There is no separate m o m ent o f unity ad d ed to the interrelated moments, no constituent part to be identified as the unifying moment, except in wholes not satisfying Husserls strict definition, that is, except in wholes that can be divided into pieces , in which case the form of unity corresponds to a unity of reference in the intention bringing the various contents into a whole. The truly unifying factors of wholes in Husserls precise sense are the relatio ns o f fo und atio n th e m se lv e s. T he unity of such a who le is a categorial predicate insofar as it is grounded in an ideal law defining the necessary interrelationships among particular contents. W ILD, JOHN (19021972). John Wild, while not strictly a phenomenologist, was nevertheless influenced by p henomenological thinking. H e rejected Husserls idealism , and instead he drew upon more the existential themes he found in M artin Heidegger s philosophy, although he was also greatly attracted to H usserls notion of the life-w orld . In 1962 Wild founded the S o ciety for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), the largest international professional society devoted to the study of phenomenology and its successors that together make up what is commonly albeit unclearly called continental philosophy. W ILL. See VOLITION. W ORLD. 1. From the perspective of the natural attitude , the world is the sum of all objects . 2. From the phenomenological perspective, the world is the correlate of consciousness , and in that light, it is the overall context in which all objects have their sense . The world, then, is the ultimate