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Perhaps one of the most controversial aspects of Husserl’s phenomenology is his discussion of “essences.” Philosophers who attempt to introduce any hint of an abstract entity usually meet with a barrage of criticism accusing them of that unforgiveable sin of “Platonism” (to which Plato himself would not plead guilty!), or of creating an overpopulated Meinongian universe. It is to this problem in Husserl that we now turn.
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Cf. Husserl, Experience and Judgment, ed. by Ludwig Landgrebe, trans, by James S. Churchill and Karl Ameriks (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973), P. 371.
J.A. Passmore, “Fact and Meaning,” (reply to Gilbert Ryle’s comment) in Thinking and Meaning, Entretiens d’Oxford, organises par l’Institut International de Philosophic (Oxford, 1962), p. 262.
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Cunningham, S. (1976). Language and the Eidetic Reduction. In: Language and the Phenomenological Reductions of Edmund Husserl. Phaenomenologica, vol 70. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1389-5_4
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