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Frege solved the latter by distinguishing between a name's meaning (here, 'bewinged horse,' etc.) and its reference (none). Likewise, Husserl distinguished between an act's meaning or noema and its object...
When we think of a centaur, Follesdal explained, "our act of thinking has a noema, but no object; because of its noema, however, even such an act is directed. What Husserl did was, in a sense, to combine the theory of intentionality with the theory of name meaning-reference...
...proclaimed that "God is dead." It is characteristic of the lack of crystallized structure in modern existentialism that its adherents include both Christians and atheists. Also, that although its practitioners in psychotherapy readily admit their debt to recent and contemporary philosophers (notably, Henri Bergson and the phenomenologists Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger), most of the pioneers began working out an existential approach independently of one another and while still ignorant of its philosophic bases...
...young man, Fernando Gerassi, like a number of Spanish intellectuals including Ortega y Gasset, went to Germany to study philosophy. "I wanted to find out the meaning of life," Gerassi recalls. After studying with such men as Heidegger and Husserl he was disappointed, "I didn't find anything but speculations." To conquer his disappointment he went to Munich to study art history with the great art historian Wolflin. When it came time for him to submit a thesis, Gerassi fooled them again. "I decided to become a painter," he says, "and Wolflin really liked painting so he encouraged...
...into a prosperous orthodox Jewish family, Edith was the youngest of seven children and the favorite of her stern, devout mother. After an intellectually precocious childhood, she decided to be an atheist at 13, remained one until she was 21. Later she fell under the spell of Phenomenologist Edmund Husserl, who bucked the relativistic trend in German philosophy by reaffirming the existence of objective truth and of a knowable world, i.e., phenomena. Edith's friends teased her, in rhyme, for thinking only of Husserl while other Austrian girls were dreaming of Busserl (Austrian patois for kiss). At Breslau University...