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This chapter describes the results of a quantitative analysis of key-word searches of the Husserl database in Japan. The concepts of Husserlian phenomenology unified in this study (intentionality, constitution, horizon, motivation, and genesis) are associated with five term families. The mean occurrences of terms in these families over the course of Husserl’s career is analyzed.

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Notes

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    For the complete registry of keywords and more information on them, see http://www.let.osaka-u.ac.jp/~cpshama/HUA/e/register.html.

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    Included are Hua 1–8, 10, 11, 13–16, 18, 19, 21–23, 25, 27, 29. Omitted are Hua 9, 12, 17, 20, 24, 26, 28, and all Husserliana after 29.

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    Those data were not included in the data used to generate Fig. 4.1, but are discussed where relevant below.

  4. 4.

    konsti* was used instead of konst* to eliminate terms like konstruktiv and konstruktion.

  5. 5.

    Only the word “Genesis” occurs in the original Japanese search results, so there was no need for an actual wild-card in this case. I keep the asterisk for consistency with other term-family names.

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    Time-averages of mean occurrences of terms in each family, across all half-decades before and after 1915, are: 0.33 versus 0.72 (konsti*), 0.22 versus 0.36 (intentional*), 0.11 versus 0.22 (motiv*), 0.03 versus 0.35 (horizon*), and 0.01 versus 0.06 (genesis*). The year 1915 was chosen based on visual inspection of the data; automated approaches also exist for determining this kind of division, e.g. methods for finding the optimal breakpoint in a segmented linear regression.

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  1. Cognitive and Information Sciences, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, USA

    Jeffrey Yoshimi

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Yoshimi, J. (2016). Textual Analysis. In: Husserlian Phenomenology. SpringerBriefs in Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26698-5_4

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