Categorial Representation Anew

In the present article, I address the issue of categorial representative contents, which, according to Husserl’s phenomenological theory, make knowledge possible by providing fullness to intuitive categorial acts. First, I discuss Husserl’s assertion that he no longer approves of his theory of categorial representation developed in Logical Investigations . I argue that the influential interpretation of Husserl’s self-criticism advanced by Dieter Lohmar is unfortunately misleading, as Husserl does not actually claim that categorial representatives are contents of reflection belonging to the realm of inner sensibility, as Lohmar contends. After offering an alternative view of Husserl’s authentic position in Logical Investigations , I examine other possible reasons for his later dissatisfaction. These reasons relate to Husserl’s changing views on the role of categorial representatives in empty thinking acts—necessarily involved in cognition—and the necessity of spontaneously repeating the passive synthesis between the intentional matters that function as categorial representatives in the predicative activity yielding knowledge

Categorial grammar · Epistemology · Generative grammar · Linguistics · Political science · Mathematics · Philosophy · Semantic Web and Ontologies

• Logische Untersuchungen

  Open Access•Edmund Husserl, Ursula Panzer•Logische Untersuchungen•1984

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• Erfahrung und Kategoriales Denken

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• Studien zur Struktur des Bewusstseins

  Open Access•Edmund Husserl, Ullrich Melle et al.•Studien zur Struktur des…•2020

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• On Husserl’s so-called Reduction to the Real Component ( Reduktion auf den reellen Bestand )

  Andrea Altobrando•Journal of the British Society…•2023

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• Intuition catégorale et voir comme

  Jocelyn Benoist•Revue Philosophique de Louvain•2001

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