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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 argued that when one begins the phenomenological investigation, one must suspend the temptation to assert that an object is in essence what it appears to be.

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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