Husserl: Phenomenology as philosophy of meaning

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This paper seeks to clarify the concepts of “meaning” and “sense,” of which Husserlian phenomenology makes constant use despite remaining far from any hermeneutical perspective or linguistic philosophy. Whether in the form of the “interpretative sense” and the “fulfilling sense” in the Logical Investigations or in the form of the “noematic sense” which emerges in the Ideas, it appears that the notion of meaning is inseparable from the thesis of the object’s being constituted, but forbids at the same time any mentalist account of it. As a non-objectifiable medium in any relation to an object, this “meaning” cannot be identified with a Fregean Sinn but must be recognized as the fundamental operative concept of Husserlian phenomenology, from which its transcendental idealism is to be understood.