Instructions
Note: this assignment is for students in Group III only.
The assignment is due, as an attachment, via the “Assignments” tool on
eCommons, by midnight Thursday, October 22 (in PDF or any format easily
converted to PDF, e.g. MSWord, LATEX, RTF, plain text).
Please respond to the following question in approximately two pages (double
spaced). (Needless to say this should be your own original work.)
In §10 of the Sixth Investigation, Husserl discusses a feature which is
supposedly common to several situations. For example: (1) thinking “that
is my inkpot” (while seeing my inkpot); (2) thinking about my inkpot
(“symbolically”), then later actually seeing the very inkpot I was thinking of; (3)
listening to a melody (hearing each new note as a further part of the
melody, connected to the notes I’m no longer hearing and the ones I have
yet to hear); (4) seeing a carpet which is partly covered by furniture (so
that the pattern of the carpet continues into a part I can’t see). What
exactly are these four experiences supposed to have in common? How
are they supposed to be different? How is this supposed to explain what
knowledge or cognition or recognition (Erkenntnis) is? How is it supposed
to explain the way we perceive objects (as opposed to perceiving sense
data)?