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INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC AND THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE LECTURES 1906/07 EDMUND HUSSERL COLLECTED WORKS EDITOR: ULLRICH MELLE VOLUME XIII INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC AND THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE LECTURES 1906/07 TRANSLATIONS PREPARED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE HUSSERL-ARCHIVES (LEUVEN) For other titles published in this series, go to www.springer.com/series/6059. EDMUND HUSSERL INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC AND THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE Lectures 1906/07 TRANSLATED BY CLAIRE ORTIZ HILL Library of Congress Control Number: 2008930156 ISBN 978-1-4020-6726-6 (PB) ISBN 978-1-4020-6725-9 (HB) ISBN 978-1-4020-6727-3 (e-Book) Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com Printed on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved © 2008 Springer Science + Business Media B.V. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form-or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or o therwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material s upplied s pecifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. TABLE OF CONTENTS TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION ..................................... xi PART I. T HE IDEA OF PURE LOGIC AS A FORMAL THEORY OF SCIENCE Chapter 1. The Characterization of What Is Logical Taking the Exact Sciences as Point of Departure .......................................................... 3 §1. First Distinction Between Logic and Psychology ......................................................................... 3 §2. The Idea of a Science of What Is Logical as That of the Essence of Science in General......................... 5 §3. Science Aims for Perspicuous Foundations ....................... 7 §4. Presumptive Conviction and Substantiating Probability .......................................................................... 11 §5. Constructing Indirect Substantiation as the Task of the Sciences ........................................................... 13 §6. All Substantiation Is Subject to a Law of Substantiation ..................................................................... 17 §7. The Significance of Substantiation Forms in Making Science in General and a Theory of Science Possible .................................................................. 22 §8. All Scientific Methods That Are Not Themselves Substantiating Are Auxiliary Tools for Substantiating ..................................................................... 24 §9. Logic as Normative Art of Judging and as the Theory of an Art ........................................................... 26 Chapter 2. Pure Logic as Theoretical Science ........................ 33 §10. The Formal Laws of Substantiation as Theoretical Truths ............................................................... 33 §11. The Supratemporality of the Proposition as Identically Ideal Meaning, Science as a System of Propositions ....................................................... 35 §12. Logic as Science of Ideal Propositions and Proposition Forms ....................................................... 40 v vi TABLE OF CONTENTS §13. The Science of Meanings Is Not a Part of Psychology ..................................................................... 42 §14. The Correlation of Theory of Meaning and Formal Ontology ................................................................. 50 §15. Fitting Formal Mathematics into the Theory of Science ........................................................................... 54 §16. Mathematics and Logic as a Supply of Truths That Each Science Can Freely Use .................................... 57 §17. The Theory of Science’s Self-referential Nature. The Ideal for the Constructing of Pure Logic .................... 62 §18. The Natural Ordering of the Formal Disciplines ............... 66 §19. The Theory of Manifolds as Science of Theory Forms ................................................................ 76 Chapter 3. Formal and Real Logic .......................................... 93 §20. The Natural Sciences as Merely Relative Sciences of Being, Metaphysics as Ultimate Science of Being ................................................................. 93 §21. The A priori Metaphysics of Reality in General as Necessary Foundation of the Empirically Grounded Metaphysics of Actual Reality .......................... 97 §22. The Relationship of A priori Metaphysics to Logico-formal Ontology ..................................................... 99 §23. Formal Logic as Theory of Theory in General, Real Logic as Theory of Knowledge of Reality ................ 104 §24. A priori Metaphysics as a Foundation for Logic in the Sense of the Theory of the Art of Scientific Knowledge ......................................................... 110 Part II. NOETICS, THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE, AND PHENOMENOLOGY Chapter 4. Noetics as Theory of Justification of Knowledge ............................................................ 115 §25. The Role of Subjectivity in the Sciences ........................... 115 §26. Formal Logic Is Not the Science of Subjective Sources of Justification .................................... 122 TABLE OF CONTENTS vii §27. Noetics as Investigation and Evaluation of Intellective Position-takings with Respect to Their Claims to Legitimacy ............................................... 127 §28. N oetics in Relation to Kant’s Critique of Reason ............................................................................ 132 §29. T he External, Morphological Treatment of Noetical Problems .............................................................. 134 §30. T he Deeper Layers of Problems of Noetics and the Epistemological Problems ............................................ 137 Chapter 5. Theory of Knowledge as First Philosophy............. 155 §31. The Position of Theory of Knowledge vis-à-vis the Logical Disciplines and Natural Sciences .................... 155 §32. The Problem of the Relationship Between Theory of Knowledge and Psychology .............................. 164 §33. Epistemological Skepticism ............................................... 176 §34. About the Possibility of Theory of Knowledge After Performing the Epoché .............................................. 189 §35. The Radical Difference Between Epistemological and Psychological Orientations of Inquiry ........................ 197 Chapter 6. Phenomenology as Science of Pure Consciousness .............................................. 213 §36. The Relationship Between Phenomenology and Theory of Knowledge .................................................. 213 §37. On the Possibility of a Science of Pure Phenomena ................................................................. 216 §38. The Transcendent Object as Theme of Phenomenological Investigation of Essences .................... 226 §39. The Independence of the Laws of Essence from Any Positing of Existence and the Only Genuine Sense of the A priori ............................................ 229 §40. The Ideal of Absolute Rationality and Its Attainability by Way of Phenomenology ........................... 232 §41. The Meaning of Phenomenology for the A priori Disciplines and Psychology ................................. 235 viii TABLE OF CONTENTS Part III. THE FORMS OF OBJECTIFICATION Chapter 7. The Lower Forms of Objectification...................... 241 §42. Concepts of Consciousness ................................................ 241 §43. Time Consciousness and Constitution of Time ................. 250 Chapter 8. The Higher Forms of Objectification .................... 273 §44. The Main Types of Concrete Objectification and the Fundamental Contrasts Within the Sphere of Objectification as a Whole ................................ 273 §45. The Function of Identity ..................................................... 277 §46. The Difference Between Objects of Thought and Sensorial Objects, Forms of Thought and Sensorial Forms .................................................................. 287 §47. The Function of Universality ............................................. 291 §48. Further Functions ............................................................... 301 §49. Existential States of Affairs ................................................ 306 §50. The Phenomenological Theory of Mind ............................ 322 §51. The Phenomenological Elucidation of Natural Scientific Knowledge ............................................ 330 Appendix A .............................................................................................. 351 APPENDIX I (to §1 and §2): Content of the Lectures on Logic and Theory of Knowledge 1906/07 .............. 351 APPENDIX II (to §1 and §2): Philosophy On the Relationship Between Science in the Usual Sense and Philosophy ....................................................... 356 APPENDIX III (to §8): Note to the Concept of Logic .................... 357 APPENDIX IV (to §22): Ultimate Particulars................................. 357 APPENDIX V (to §24): A priori Ontology and A priori Metaphysics ................................................................................. 358 APPENDIX VI (to §30d ff.): Psychological and Phenomenological Subjectivity ................................................... 358 APPENDIX VII (to §31b and §32): The Completion of the Natural Sciences Through the Epistemological Elucidation of the Logical and Ontological Disciplines ............. 359 APPENDIX VIII (to §33a): The Meaning of Skepticism for Theory of Knowledge ............................................................ 361 TABLE OF CONTENTS ix APPENDIX IX (to §34b): The Presuppositionlessness of Theory of Knowledge. Not All Knowledge Is Burdened with the Problem of Transcendence ........................... 362 APPENDIX X (to §35d): Critical and Phenomenological Position-Takings .......................................................................... 364 APPENDIX XI (to §35d): External, Inner, and Phenomenological Perception ..................................................... 365 APPENDIX XII (to Chapter 6): Phenomenology as Essence Analysis of the Consciousness. Its Relationship to the Other A priori Disciplines ...................... 367 APPENDIX XIII (to Chapter 6): Phenomenology and Psychology. Phenomenology and Theory of Knowledge. Phenomenological Description vis-à-vis Empirical Description................................................... 376 APPENDIX XIV (to §37b): On Phenomenology’s Method and the Meaning of Its Scientific Intentions ..................................................................................... 385 APPENDIX XV (Variation of 47b): Higher-Level Generalities. The Universal as Object and as Property .............. 386 APPENDIX XVI (to §50a): The Objectivity of Knowledge. The Ideally Legitimated Fulfilment-Relationships ............................................................. 389 APPENDIX XVII (to §51d): On the Theory of Probabilities ................................................................................. 393 APPENDIX XVIII (to §51d): Memory’s Attainment of Fulfilment ................................................................................ 394 Appendix B ............................................................................. 397 APPENDIX I: Theory of Knowledge as an Absolute Theory of the Essence of Knowledge ......................................... 397 APPENDIX II: The Task of Theory of Knowledge ......................... 404 APPENDIX III: Phenomenology ..................................................... 407 APPENDIX IV: A priori Ontology and Phenomenology ........................................................................... 428 APPENDIX V: Transcendental Phenomenology <as the> Science of Transcendental Subjectivity and of the Constitution of All Objectivity of Knowledge and Values in It ............................................................................ 431

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This course on logic and theory of knowledge fell exactly midway between the publication of the ''Logical Investigations'' in 1900-01 and ''Ideas I'' in 1913. It constitutes a summation and consolidation of Husserl's logico-scientific, epistemological, and epistemo-phenomenological investigations of
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