Abstract

Welton's book concentrates on the development of Husserl's views concerning the relationship between the meanings of linguistic expressions and the fulfillment sense objects have for us in our perceptual experience. Welton understands the issue of this relationship to be a central problem, perhaps even the central problem, motivating the development in Husserl's phenomenology. Consequently, Welton organizes his book in a roughly chronological fashion, tracing Husserl's discussions of two different types of meaning, the fulfillment of meaning-l by meaning-p, and the manner in which the two types of meaning supplement and build upon one another.