On an adequacy between meaningful intention and intuitive fulfillment in Husserl’s Logical Investigations

Abstract

The present paper addresses the distinction and the synthesis between “meaningful intention” and “intuitive fulfillment” in the Logical Investigations ([1901] 1913). Initially, the article addresses the merging of the sensitive, meaningful and intuitive aspects in the constitution of a sign as a “full expression” (vollen Ausdruck). In the second part, the article shows that, in perception, the intuitive fulfillment of what is intentioned by the meaningful act occurs in a series that gradually increases the knowledge of the object. Finally, it shows that the series point to a perfection of an adequacy between meaningful intention and the fully intuited thing, revealing a close relationship between “intuition” and “evidence” in Husserl’s phenomenology.