Philosophy of Arithmetic: Psychological and Logical Investigations

work by Husserl
Also known as: “Philosophie der Arithmetik: Psychologische und logische Untersuchungen”

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place in Husserl’s development

  • Edmund Husserl
    In phenomenology: Basic principles

    …which was later expanded into Philosophie der Arithmetik: Psychologische und logische Untersuchungen (1891; Philosophy of Arithmetic: Psychological and Logical Investigations). Numbers are not found ready-made in nature but result from a mental achievement. Here Husserl was preoccupied with the question of how something like the constitution of numbers ever comes…

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