An Inquiry into Mental Variation

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  • Nebojsa Kujundzic
  • Richard Holmes
  • Fred Kersten
چکیده

genus to an abstract essence one would vary several coloured objects and discover that colour belongs to all of them as a highly abstract moment. In 80 other words, one would discover that colour is not an independent, real object; it presupposes extension in order to exist. For Husserl, Lockean dependencies between general concepts and their variants merely serve as a vast playground, or network of possible directions, for free variation. He gladly embraced all possible meanderings that the process of varying may take: But in the case of variation, we can start out from the beginning from a concrete, independent object. Thus, for example, by the variation of this fountain pen we come to the genus "useful object." But we can also drop this limitation and discover ever new possibilities of variation; we can, for example, imagine the fountain pen changed into a stone, and there is still something common which runs through them: both are spatially extended, material things (Husserl 1973, 358-359). (3) The third feature of free variation is our capacity of retaining in grasp the things imagined earlier. This is obvious: without some sort of common thread, the modifications of ideas and images would turn into mere temporal juxtaposition of ideas. This feature of free variation also provides it with a sense

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تاریخ انتشار 1995