Husserl’s Elementary Logic. The 1896 Lectures In Their Nineteenth Century Context
Husserl’s Elementary Logic. The 1896 Lectures In Their Nineteenth Century Context

Summary/Abstract: Among Franz Brentano’s ambitious philosophical enterprises was his attempt at a reform of logic. In his Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint he formulates the theory of judgment which was to be the basis for the reform,1 though he never published a logic in which the details of the reform might have been presented. Nevertheless, he lectured on the reform. In spite of their awareness thereof, Brentano’s two most prominent students, Alexius Meinong and Edmund Husserl, rejected it in the 1890s.2 Already in 1890 Meinong collaborated with his student, Alois Höfler, on a logic textbook for the gymnasia of Austria. The theory of judgment that is formulated in this textbook diverges from Brentano’s considerably and therefore met with extreme disap proval from Anton Marty.4 A decade later Husserl’s Prolegomena to Pure Logic, the first volume of his Logical Investigations, was published. 5 In this volume Husserl altogether rejected the Brentanian view that elementary logic is concerned with judgments, understood in the sense of acts of consciousness which come into being and pass away

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