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An awful perplexity gripped me upon receiving the title of Professor Willard’s paper. I had no idea whether to expect a series of off-color remarks about logically true sentences or — perhaps even worse — a serious attempt to ground the notion of logical form in perceptible colors. How would I handle the former, and what could I say about the latter, a position I was convinced no one could actually believe? I was not greatly consoled by the abstract of Professor Willard’s paper, for in it I saw suggestions that some believed logical form to be perceptible shape — a position which suffers, as Professor Willard points out, from precisely the same difficulties as the one I feared he might present. Needless to say, I was reassured only by his announcement that he was going to argue against this view.
A comment on Professor Willard’s “Sentences Which Are True in Virtue of Their Color”
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Cp. also Edmund Husserl, Cartesianische Meditationen, ed. by S. Strasser, Husserliana I, (2nd ed., The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1963) [English translation by Dorion Cairns, Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1970)], §14.
Cf. Dallas Willard, “The Paradox of Logical Psychologism: Husserl’s Way Out”, Husserl: Expositions and Appraisals, ed. by F. A. Elliston and P. McCormick (Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1977), p. 17, n. 25;
Richard Aquila also regrets these later developments; cf. his “Husserl and Frege on Meaning”, Journal of the History of Philosophy 12 (1974): 377—83
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For a detailed account of the changes in Husserl’s theory of intentionality, cf. John J. Drummond, Husserlian Intentionality and Non-Foundational Realism: Noema and Object, Contributions to Phenomenology 4 (Dordrecht and Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990), esp. chaps. 2–8.
Robert Sokolowski provides a clear discussion of the Husserlian texts dealing with the distinctions between formal mathematics, formal ontology, and formal logic in “Logic and Mathematics in Formal and Transcendental Logic”, an appendix to his Husserlian Meditations [Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1974], pp. 271–89.
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Drummond, J.J. (1991). Willard and Husserl on Logical Form. In: Seebohm, T.M., Føllesdal, D., Mohanty, J.N. (eds) Phenomenology and the Formal Sciences. Contributions to Phenomenology, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2580-2_16
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