ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the relations between three important concepts: those of Meaning, Fulfilment and Validation. The first and third are extremely familiar, being a constant theme of philosophical discourse over the past two decades: the word 'validation' is meant to cover all procedures that establish, or that help to establish, the truth of a statement or proposition. To talk about 'meanings' need not, further, commit us to regarding meanings as entities in any other sense than that they enter into the analysis or description of a meaningful reference. The second concept, that of Fulfilment is taken from Husser's final study in the Logische Untersuchungen, an essay not much studied at any time, but which he have always regarded as one of the supreme masterpieces of philosophical analysis. The obvious paradigmatic case of such fulfilment is of course the simple case of sense-perception, to which Husserl has devoted such incomparably acute analyses.
