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> I have a suspicion that Ted confuses phenomenology and metaphysics. Phenomenology is the study of the structure of consciousness, not the world, and, unless you are a subjective idealist and equate consciousness and the world, it tells you nothing about the world.
This isn' true of phenomenology in Husserl's sense. The clam that the intentionality of consciousness "tells you nothing about the world" could only be the end point of a phenomenological interrogation of it in that sense. It's not a very likely end point though since it's absurd, a point Husserl himself makes in his treatment of Humean scepticism in the Crisis.
Ted