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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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150481

Theme, interest, indication

Edmund Husserl

pp. 25-26

Abstract

At the end of our last lecture, we characterized the entire nexus of expressing and signifying as a unity of an egoic act. Now we can immediately pick up this line of thought here in order to provide the character of thinking with a necessary depth, a depth with which a novel and at the same time especially distinctive mode of execution by egoic acts in general will come to light. If we compare the mode of execution in which the central speaking ego carries out the word-constituting act and, on the other hand, the sense-constituting act, we will encounter a sharp contrast. We also called the latter mode of thinking the act of meaning or intending. For example, what is expressed in propositional speech like "geometry is the science of space," is what the person speaking judicatively "means." But while he means the judgment "with" the words, in this case he does not mean the words themselves. They are given to the ego in a manner that is quite different from the way in which what is judged is given to the ego. Residing in the latter, so to speak, is theterminus ad quemand through this it has a special priority in relation to the word, although the ego's regard was also directed toward the word.

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Published in:

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

Pages: 25-26

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-0846-4_8

Full citation:

Husserl Edmund (2001) Theme, interest, indication, In: Analyses concerning passive and active synthesis, Dordrecht, Springer, 25–26.