ABSTRACT
The Logical Investigations was the culmination of a decade of sustained work on the origins of knowledge. It also marked according to Husserl himself the ‘breakthrough to phenomenology’.1 The initial volume of the Investigations (LU), Prolegomena to Pure Logic, offers a closely argued rejection of any position that attempts to derive logical laws from empirical-psychological generalizations and stands in a relation of relative independence from the six investigations themselves. The organization of the Investigations proper is ordered according to a movement from what has been outlined above as the inauthentic presentations of signification to the authenticity of adequate intuitive givenness. For present purposes consideration will be focused upon the last two investigations, dealing respectively with the concept of ‘the intentional lived experience and its “content”’ and ‘the phenomenological clarification of knowledge’. Ostensively epistemological enquiries, investigations five and six of LU make evident that the breakthrough to phenomenology is at once an attempt to give a fundamental characterization both of what is means to say that something is an object of consciousness and conversely what the basic character of consciousness’ relation to things is.
