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Logical Investigations

Disciplines:
epistemology
philosophy/philosophy of language
phenomenology

Summary

Edmund Husserl's two-volume foundational work critiquing psychologism in logic and developing the method of intentional analysis — the founding text of phenomenology.

Core Contribution

Refutes psychologism: logical laws are not psychological generalizations; they are ideal, a priori norms. Develops the theory of intentionality, meaning, and reference; the distinction between sense (Sinn) and reference is developed independently of Frege.

Historical Influences

Edmund Husserl

Intellectual Lineage

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Allied Works

Ideas I Being and Time Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint

Contemporaries & Peers

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Intellectual Posterity

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