ABSTRACT
This chapter traces the development of Edmund Husserl's project over the last years of the nineteenth century, following its trajectory from his teacher's resurrection of the idea of intentionality to the guiding principle of "legitimizing" presentation articulated in Ideas. Husserl seeks further to clarify the structure of presentations by considering the ways in which they "give" their objects, with varying degrees and kinds of evidence or fullness. Here, he introduces a second crucial distinction, that between the actually intuited content of a presentation and its broader "intended, complete content". Over the course of his career, and in considering diverse subject matters ranging from mathematics and logic, to ontology, semantics, and the theory of value, Husserl adds at least three crucial ideas to Brentano's conception of intentionality. When Brentano described intentionality as the characteristic feature of mental phenomena, he also invoked an exhaustive distinction between these phenomena and what he called "physical" ones.
