Winquist posited that illuminating, or satisfying, the becoming of the occasion was a kind of prehension to finding a structured order: an interaction of subject with event, or entity (the other), that concerned perception, but not always reliable cognition. This concept, presented in Winquist’s theological work, and actually grounded in empirical studies, suggested emotional states heighten memory retention. Thus, that which integrates physical reality with conceptuality is founded in the "transcendental imagination," a connection that shields, yet binds humanity to reality. People's emotionality coheres to the structures they encounter in life. Winquist argued there is a life history of striving beyond the passage of actualities; emotional and objective understanding (the conceptional reality of the transcendental imagination), as well as subjective goals, and the primordial nature of God bring interpretive, foundational knowledge.