The Act and Intentional Essence of Inquiry
摘要
This chapter presents Husserl’s treatment of inquiry in his early intentionality analyses. I first show how question sentences come to fall outside classical formal logic, since they do not take a position on the truth or falsity of a state of affairs, that is, are not apophantic. Then I show the way in which Husserl gives a phenomenological account of how questions, despite not having a truth-value, are meaningful. The meaning of questions emerges within the intentional life of thinking such that the expression articulates or “gives voice to” intentional acts. The expression can be formalized, as in classical logic, but this abstracts from the intentional life to which it refers. As such, Husserl can take up inquiry within a broader understanding of “logic” that includes the full range of meaning.