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I shall concentrate on a central point in the phenomenological enterprise, namely the function of the life-world (LW) concept in constitutional analyses. The merit of Professor Mohanty’s distinction between LW1 and LW2 is that it commits us ultimately to reject any kind of pure foundations interpretation of Husserl’s work. It should be clear that neither LW1 nor LW2 can provide the justificatory ground of incorrigible statements from which, say, particular scientific statements are derived (or to which they can be reduced). But if an appeal to the life-world does not serve this function, what purpose does it serve ? Professor Mohanty’s answer is that the “vague typicalities” of LW2 “are the a priori conditions of the possibility of an entity, or world, whatsoever.” It is to this rather Kantian answer that I shall direct my following remarks.
Research for this paper was supported by a summer grant from the SUNYA Committee on Institutional Funds.
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Barry Stroud, ‘Transcendental Arguments’, The Journal of Philosophy 65 (1968) 241–256; Moltke S. Gram, Transcendental Arguments’, Noûs 5 (1971) 15–26.
A. J. Ayer, The Problem of Knowledge, Penguin Books, Inc., Baltimore, 1962, Chapter 2 (iii), esp. pp. 50–52. Gram, loc. cit.
Jaako Hintikka, ‘Cogito, Ergo Sum: Inference or Performance?’, The Philosophical Review 71 (1962) 3–32.
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Meyn, H.L. (1974). Discussion Special Contribution to the Debate. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) The Phenomenological Realism of the Possible Worlds. Analecta Husserliana, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2163-0_6
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