ABSTRACT
Intersubjectivity is at the core of Husserl’s phenomenology. His view on this topic developed in stages from around 1905 till the end of his life. Gradually it incorporated and refined more and more of his phenomenological insights. These insights emerged gradually in Husserl’s development of phenomenology. A challenge in Husserl scholarship is to see how his basic notions became refined and modified when he went into new issues. Quine called himself a behaviorist, and meant by this that one should explain communication and intersubjectivity without appealing to non-observable entities, such as meanings or Frege’s Sinne. Philosophers and linguists have always said that language is a social institution. Philosophers and linguists have always said that language is a social institution. The parallel similarity standards that are the basis of language learning also enables vicarious induction: we can learn about the world and adjust our expectations and habits through communicating with others and learning from their experiences.
