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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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“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

By day, she struggled to parse Husserl in the original German; by night, she watched a lot of YouTube—“ ‘Christopher Hitchens destroys creationist in debate,’ that kind of thing,” she said.

From The New Yorker Nov. 20, 2018

Professors Husserl, Lipps, and Vaihinger, as their most recent important books show, work on lines which insist on bringing life as it is and as it ought to be into their systems.

From An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy by Jones, W. Tudor (William Tudor)

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