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Referring to the captious expressions “‘mental’ object” and “‘immanent’ object” in §90 of Ideas I, Husserl says: “Here denominations already evince interpretations, and often quite false ones.”1 In what follows, I would like to show that denominations also evince false, and sometimes even “quite false” interpretations especially concerning the discourse of “the universal” (das Allgemeine).
*Translation of the expanded version of the presentation “Das Allgemeine als das ‘Gemeinsame.’ Anmerkungen zum Proton Pseudos der Lehre Husserls von derWesensanschauung” delivered at the conference entitled “Phenomenology – Sciences – Philosophy” organized by the Husserl-Archives in Leuven to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Husserl’s birth (Catholic University of Leuven, 1-4 April 2009). The German version of this article will be published in 2011 in “Die Aktualität Husserls,” ed. by Verena Mayer, Marisa Scherini, and Christopher Erhard (Freiburg/München: Alber Verlag).
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Sowa, R. (2010). The Universal as “What is in Common”: Comments on the Proton-Pseudos in Husserl’s Doctrine of the Intuition of Essence*. In: Mattens, F., Jacobs, H., Ierna, C. (eds) Philosophy, Phenomenology, Sciences. Phaenomenologica, vol 200. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0071-0_21
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