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HUSSERL’S SEMANTICS: MENDING HUSSERL WITH HUSSERL
HUSSERL’S SEMANTICS: MENDING HUSSERL WITH HUSSERL

Author(s): Horst Ruthrof
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: essentially occasional expressions; modality; non-verbal mental materials; non-essential typifications; imaginability; linguistic linkage compulsion

Summary/Abstract: The paper argues for a way of bringing Husserl’s semantics in Logical Investigations up to date by drawing on a variety of critical tools gleaned from his later writings. My argument proceeds in two steps. (1) I offer a summary of the main ingredients of Husserl’s theorization of natural language, with an emphasis on his description of linguistic meaning as a Platonic ideal species. (2) The paper gathers a number of concepts from Husserl’s later works up to Experience and Judgment for the kind of repair work that could make his semantics once more a competitive candidate in the arena of natural language semantics. I do so by reformulating Husserl’s approach in terms of a ‘semantics of imaginability’.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 11-41
  • Page Count: 31
  • Language: English
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