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| | 20th WCP: Philosophy as Meaningful Science: The Subject and Objective Knowledge in Husserl and Popper |
 | | Husserl, in turn, while being primarily concerned with historical description of the origin of science among the Presocratics, ends up ascribing "prescientific" properties to the minds of children, while scientific rationality is the mark of a mature mind. |
 | | Husserl's main concern is that, due to its structural independence from its producer, writing allows ideal objects to be reawakened less and less fully, until their original meaning is lost, and we perform manipulations with them, which completely fail to take this meaning into account. |
 | | Husserl's final commitment to subjectivist concerns is on normative grounds: we have a responsibility to avoid the "seduction of language," to reconstitute the original meanings of the ideas handed down to us, to make scientific expressions as univocal as possible. |
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