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There is a skeleton in the closet of philosophical logic.
Response to Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock, “On Husserl’s Distinction between State of Affairs (Sachverhalt) and Situation of Affairs (Sachlage)”, September 27, 1985, Pittsburgh, Conference on Phenomenology and the Formal Sciences.
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HusserPs distinction between state of affairs (Sachverhalt) and situation (Sachlage) is expounded primarily in section 59 of Experience and Judgment (edited by Ludwig Landgrebe; translated by James S. Churchill and Karl Ameriks; Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 1973; German original, 1948, posthumous). The correlative distinction between predicative and prepredicative experience is also expounded primarily in that text and is the major theme of the work. My discussion here is based on that text. On various notions of state of affairs in turn-of-the-century Austrian philosophy, see: Kevin Mulligan, “‘Wie die Sachen sich zu einander verhalten’ inside and outside the Tractatus’”, Teoria 2 (1985) 145–174; Edgar Morscher, “Propositions and States of Affairs in Austrian Philosophy before Wittgenstein”, photocopied, 1985. I have benefited from discussion at the Conference, in particular from remarks by Professors Rosado, Dagfinn Føllesdal, Charles Harvey, J. N. Mohanty, Thomas Seebohm, and Donn Welton.
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Smith, D.W. (1991). On Situations and States of Affairs. In: Seebohm, T.M., Føllesdal, D., Mohanty, J.N. (eds) Phenomenology and the Formal Sciences. Contributions to Phenomenology, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2580-2_4
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