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By Edmund Husserl

The booklet of this English translation by way of Dorion Cairns
of Formale und transzendentale Logik fulfills a wish expressed by
Edmund Husserl. Husserl himself, within the final years of his life,
entrusted the interpretation of this paintings to Dorion Cairns, whom he
counted between his most sensible scholars. for numerous purposes, it truly is only
now that this translation might be released. within the meantime,
Dorion Cairns's translation into English of Husserl's Cartesianische
Meditationen has been said in every single place as a piece of the
highest medical caliber. the current translation of the Formale
und transzendentale Logik is a vital additional step for
making Husserl's notion identified within the English-speaking world.
In the identify of the Husserl-Archives, I desire to exhibit my
sincere due to Professor Dorion Cairns for his self-sacrificing
work.
H. L. Van Breda
Director of the Husserl-Archives
Louvain

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Without exception the ideas with which logic is concerned are ideas of "genuineness". The genuine is what reason aims at ultimately — even in its decadent mode, the mode of PREPARATORY CONSIDERATIONS 29 unreason. The genuine is what is "missed" in obscurity or confusion; whereas, with clarity of goal and way and in the essential forms pertaining to such clarity, it is attained. § 6. T H E FORMAL CHARACTER OF LOGIC. T H E FORMAL A P R I O R I A N D T H E CONTINGENT A P R I O R I . The universality of logic, as concerned with principles, is not simply an apriori or eidetic universality; rather it is, more particularly, a formal universality.

The question is: What universal essential character must a process of consciousness have, in order to be capable of taking on 1 Translator's note: Nevertheless in numerous later passages Urteil must signify judging and not what is judged, and in numerous others it probably signifies judging but may signify what is judged. In almost every case it has been translated here as judgment — with a corresponding ambiguity in many contexts. In the few cases where it lias been translated as judging, the original word is given in brackets.

Teil, I. " [Cf. Farber, op. , Chap. VII, pp. ] PREPARATORY CONSIDERATIONS 23 We need go no further to delimit, as a preliminary, a first and broadest, concept of thinking, one that shall embrace all the psychic processes in which this act of meaning consists — this act in which there is constituted for the speaking subject (or, on the other hand, for the hearing and understanding subject) the meaning — that is, the signification, the sense — expressed in the locution. For example, if we utter a judgment, we have effected, in union with the words of our assertive statement, a unity of judging, of inwardly "thinking" asserting.

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