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In this presentation I want to point out to you something that no doubt all of you have seen many times. This will be a little like walking on the beautiful Campus Universitario of Santiago. 1 Right in its middle there is a basin of water with water-lilies in it an a fountain springing up. At one end of the basin stands a very remarkable tree. I myself walked by this tree many times without noticing anything special, but then I was struck by its branches which stick out in all different directions to give it a bizarre shape. And as I looked more closely I found the leaves of this tree to be even more interesting: they are quite unlike the leaves ofany tree I have ever seen. I do not know if many of you have also noticed this tree, but maybe the next time you pass it you will give it a closer look.
Motto: “But as long as the concepts are not distinguished and clarified, all further effort will be hopeless.”
(Husserl, Prolegomena, p. 245)*
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Kienzler, W. (1991). What Is a Phenomenon? The Concept of Phenomenon in Husserl’s Phenomenology. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) The Turning Points of the New Phenomenological Era. Analecta Husserliana, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3464-4_36
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