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Departing from modal logic, Jean-Yves Girard, as a logician interested in philosophy, presented a distinction between essentialism and existentialism in logic. Carlos Lobo reflected about the Girard’s concept to reinterpret the Husserlian Platonism in regard of the status of logical modalities. We start rescuing the notion of modal logic in the Edmund Husserl’s works, especially Formal and Transcendental Logic and First Philosophy. Developing this reflexion, we propose a new contribution to this discussion, reinterpreting the platonic influence in the Husserlian notions of eidos and science, light of some readings of Lee Hardy and Johanna M. Tito. As a conclusion of this dialogue between Husserl and Girard, the method of eidetic variation is presented as a tool to review the idea of science, in a manner consistent with the phenomenological approach.
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This research was made possible by a Grant from CAPES and PUC-PR to develop a thesis project. We are also grateful to the participants of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Husserl Circle for their insightful suggestions.
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Lobo, C., Bastos, C.L. & Vargas, C.E.C. On Essentialism and Existentialism in the Husserlian Platonism: A Reflexion Based on Modal Logic. Axiomathes 25, 335–343 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-014-9248-5
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