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Husserl

American  
[hoos-erl] / ˈhʊs ɛrl /

noun

  1. Edmund (Gustav Albrecht) 1859–1938, German philosopher born in Austria.


Husserl British  
/ ˈhʊsərl /

noun

  1. Edmund (ˈɛtmʊnt). 1859–1938, German philosopher; founder of phenomenology

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“The best philosophers, such as Aristotle, Hume, Kant and Husserl, have always paid extremely close attention to the science of their day.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

“Edmund Husserl mentions nothing about any of that!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2023

Husserl thus provided the foundation of the phenomenological project: the relinquishing of assumptions about the objects of experience.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

Another Londoner, Holocaust Memorial Day Trust volunteer Zdenka Husserl, is a survivor of Theresienstadt concentration camp and came to Surrey as a refugee.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2022

Authenticity With The Self: For Actualization of Nursing's Potential Husserl, the father of phenomenology, suggested the study of our lived worlds, our experience, a return to the study of "the thing itself."

From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson

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