Husserl : Intentionality and Indexical Context in the Life - world With Edmund
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With Edmund Husserl we reach a kind of culmination of the discussion of the logical and experiential aspects of reference which Mill initiated and to which Frege, Russell and Peirce made important and complementary contributions. In Husserl, as in these others, indexicality makes an appearance as a crucial aspect of the theory of reference, required by natural language reference to objects of immediate experience; and once again it provokes positions which play a significant role in the overall development of a theory of language and meaning. Husserl, like Frege, views Mill as both the initiator of a new era of logical rigor and as a prime example of the dangers of psychologism for the foundational security of logic (including, in particular, the logical theory of mathematics). Mill's thoughts on the name relation, including the denotation/connotation distinction, provided a starting point for finer grained analyses which led both Frege and Husserl to propose new and more informative distinctions. But Husserl's interest in aspects of meaning outside of mathematical and scientific contexts, and his appreciation for the social aspects of language and meaning, led him to views of natural language which have much more in common with Peirce's than is usually recognized.1 Certainly Husserl is as concerned as Russell with the link between referential meaning and the kind of direct experience which Russell called
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