In this paper we want to expose the different meanings that Husserl assigns to the concept of givenness and given in the framework of his static phenomenology (basically Logical Investigations, Ideen 1 and his Logos-Artikel of 1911). The importance of the concept of Gegebenheit will help us to clarify the basic differences between the phenomenological and the neo-kantian (especially Heinrich Rickert’s) approach about the question of knowledge in the frame of transcendental philosophy. Moreover, on the basis of these differences we will try to clarify some basic frames of the phenomenological method like intentionality, constitution, categorical intuition and transcendental reduction. pre-print 735 KB