Page "Edmund Husserl" Paragraph 29

From Logical Investigations ( 1900 / 1901 ) to Experience and Judgment ( published in 1939 ), Husserl expressed clearly the difference between meaning and object.

He identified several different kinds of names.

For example, there are names that have the role of properties that uniquely identify an object.

Each of these names express a meaning and designate the same object.

Examples of this are " the victor in Jena " and " the loser in Waterloo ", or " the equilateral triangle " and " the equiangular triangle "; in both cases, both names express different meanings, but designate the same object.

There are names which have no meaning, but have the role of designating an object: " Aristotle ", " Socrates ", and so on.

Finally, there are names which designate a variety of objects.

These are called " universal names "; their meaning is a " concept " and refers to a series of objects ( the extension of the concept ).

The way we know sensible objects is called " sensible intuition ".