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My proximate aim in this paper is to clarify the vital role of the IIIrd “Investigation” in Husserl’s project for his Logical Investigations (LI)1.My ultimate aim is to show how the LI opened the way to — indeed, constituted — a realist understanding of consciousness (as well as language) and reality.
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All page references will be to the English translation by J. N. Findlay, Logical Investigations,Humanities Press: NY, 1970, indicated throughout this paper by “LI.”
The LI developed from Husserl’s 1984 paper, “Psychological Studies in the Elements of Logic,” English translation in Edmund Husserl, Early Writings in the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics,translated by Dallas Willard, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994, pp. 139–170. Of this paper Husserl said, in 1906, “That treatise…I have now read once again. It is a first sketch of the Logical Investigations,especially of the IIIth and V”.“ (op. cit.,p. 491). In 1913 Husserl described the IIIrd ”Investigation“ as ”an essential presupposition for the full understanding of the Investigations which follow,“ noting at the same time that that ”Investigation is all too little read“ (LI p. 49).
Sartre (1970), on one of his better days, got this just right. See his brilliant little note, “Une idée fondamentale de la ”Phénoménologie“ de Husserl, l’intentionnalité”.
Edmund Husserl, Idea of Phenomenology, translated by Lee Hardy, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, p. 19.
As is boldly stated at the front of the Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung vol. I, 1913.
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, translated by Norman Kemp Smith, London: Macmillan & Co. LTD, 1958, p. 34n.
For further discussion of why this is so, see Dallas Willard, 1983. My paper is available from my website, http://www.dwillard.org.
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Willard, D. (2003). The Theory of Wholes and Parts and Husserl’s Explication of the Possibility of Knowledge in the Logical Investigations . In: Husserl’s Logical Investigations Reconsidered. Contributions to Phenomenology, vol 48. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0207-2_11
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