Edmund Husserl´s pure logical grammar and the foundation of language in perception
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Husserl, Phenomenology, Logical Investigations, Pure Logical Grammar, Categorial IntuitionAbstract
In the Fourth Investigation of his Logical Investigations, E. Husserl develops his pure logical grammar with the intention of finding a priori laws about valid combinations and modifications between expressions. The traditional interpretation has received this project as an explanation that pronounces on the valid linear construction between expressions, that is, as a syntactic type of explanation. In this work it is postulated that, together with the syntactic explanation coexists a semantic one, unnoticed by Husserl, according to which what is said about the combination between expressions and meanings can be extended to presentations (Vorstellungen), which raises the question about the structure of those. Is such structure imposed by language or is it received by it? Our answer, built from premises given by Husserl himself, is that the structure of meaningful language is extracted from the perceptual realm. To this end, we complement our analysis with a discussion of the thesis of categorical intuition developed in the Sixth Investigation. Our final proposal is that it is from this that the structure is extracted, which is then applied to significations and expressions to give rise meaningful language.
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