Edmund Husserl Quotes on Truth
Husserl's analysis of truth — articulated across the Logical Investigations (1900–01), Ideas (1913), and the late Formal and Transcendental Logic (1929) — distinguishes the empty intention through which a meaning is grasped from the fulfilled intention in which the corresponding state of affairs is given in evidential adequacy. Truth in the strictest sense is the agreement (adequatio) between the meant and the given that the fulfilled intention exhibits, and the disciplined phenomenological description of the various modes of evidence — perceptual, categorial, eidetic — supplies the philosophical analysis of how the various species of truth are constituted in consciousness. The framework reorganized the early-twentieth-century continental analysis of truth and shaped Heidegger, Levinas, and the broader phenomenological tradition that took up the Husserlian program in different directions.
Quotes
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Attributed to Edmund Husserl:
“Back to the things themselves.”
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Attributed to Edmund Husserl:
“Phenomenology is the science of essences.”
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Attributed to Edmund Husserl:
“The true beginning of philosophy is the radical reflection upon what one is taking for granted.”
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“To every object there corresponds an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.”
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