#david pears

Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

That is how a picture is attached to reality; it reaches right out to it.

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

Is not this eternal life itself as much of a riddle as our present life? The solution of the riddle of life in space and time lies outside space and time.

D. F. Pears comments that the question "What is knowledge?" is to be put "more fully and suggestively" as: "What is a piece of knowledge made of, and how is it made?" That is exactly Husserl's view. On his analysis, knowing (in the non-dispositional sense) is fundamentally a matter of finding something to be as it is thought to be. His technical term for this complex type of "finding" is "fulfilment." Thus, for him, "To speak of knowledge of the object and of fulfilment of the meaning of an intention [upon the object] merely expresses the same state of affairs from different viewpoints." And again: "We have equated fulfilment with knowledge (in the more rigorous sense) and have indicated that 'fulfilment' only signifies certain types of re-identification: namely, those which bring us closer to the goal of knowledge. What this means may be clarified by saying that in each fulfilment there is a more or less complete 'intuitionalization' of the relevant subject matter" (LI 719-20). Our task here is to make clear what, for Husserl, the "pieces" are that go into a case of fulfilment, and how they come together.