ABSTRACT
The words signification and signitive intention were taken to be identical in meaning. Edmund Husserl proposes to characterize the general concepts of signification and intuition phenomenologically by recourse to the phenomena of fulfillment, and to investigate the analysis, fundamental for the clarification of knowledge, of the various kinds of intuition, first of all, of sensuous intuition. The sixth investigation, entitled "Elements of a Phenomenological Elucidation of Knowledge," was regarded by Husserl as the most important phenomenologically. The discussion of the distinction of act-quality and act-matter within the unified intentional essence also led deeply into the sphere of logical interests. The question of the relationship of this intentional matter to the presentation-basis essential to every act required that various important and confused concepts of presentation be separated, whereby a fundamental portion of the "theory of judgment" was worked out.
