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(1978) The development of Husserl's thought, Dordrecht, Springer.
The most important anti-psychologistic thesis that Husserl wished to defend in the Prolegomena is that logic, as an a priori science, is not a real science but an ideal science. In this work he already observed that a proper conception of the distinction between these two kinds of sciences is only possible when the empiricist theory of abstraction is given up.1 The question of abstraction is indeed the central problem in the founding of the ideal sciences. Therefore I will begin this chapter by taking up the new theory of abstraction. Then, in Chapters 4 and 5, I will deal with the question of the task of the philosophical analysis of origins in connection with the formal a priori sciences.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-9691-5_9
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de Boer, T. (1978). The new theory of abstraction, in The development of Husserl's thought, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 234-269.
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