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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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The ideality of linguistic phenomena

Edmund Husserl

pp. 10-13

Abstract

The three headings that we specified above, however, are still quite ambiguous; due to the abundant obscurity of the terms 20 employed they require further distinction and clarification. First, we recognize that we must not overlook a certain distinction where the term speech or language is concerned. We distinguish the articulated word, speech that is spoken at present taken as a sensuous phenomenon, especially as an acoustical phenomenon, 25 from the word and proposition itself or from a string of propositions itself making up a larger discourse. It is for good reason that we speak precisely of a repetition of the same words and sentences in the event we are not understood, repeating [what we have said]. In a treatise, in a novel, every word, every sentence 30 is singularly unique, and it cannot be duplicated by a repeated reading, be it aloud or to oneself. Indeed, in this case it is not a matter of who reads it: each one having his own voice, intonation, etc. We distinguish not only the treatise itself (taken here in merely a grammatical sense of a composition of words and 35 language) from the manifolds of uttered reproductions, but likewise from the manifold documentations that endure on paper

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Husserl Edmund (2001) Analyses concerning passive and active synthesis: Lectures on transcendental logic. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 10-13

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-0846-4_3

Full citation:

Husserl Edmund (2001) The ideality of linguistic phenomena, In: Analyses concerning passive and active synthesis, Dordrecht, Springer, 10–13.