?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Logic+and+Formal+Ontology&rft.creator=Smith%2C+B.&rft.subject=Logic&rft.subject=Metaphysics&rft.description=The+current+resurgence+of+interest+in+cognition+and+in+the+nature+of+cognitive+processing+has+brought+with+it+also+a+renewed+interest+in+the+early+work+of+Husserl%2C+one+of+the+most+sustained+attempts+to+come+to+grips+with+the+problems+of+logic+from+a+cognitive+point+of+view.+Logic%2C+for+Husserl%2C+is+a+theory+of+science%3B+but+it+is+a+theory+which+takes+seriously+the+idea+that+scientific+theories+are+constituted+by+the+mental+acts+of+cognitive+subjects.+The+present+essay+begins+with+an+exposition+of+Husserl's+act-based+conception+of+what+a+science+is%2C+and+goes+on+to+consider+his+account+of+the+role+of+linguistic+meanings%2C+of+the+ontology+of+scientific+objects%2C+and+of+evidence+and+truth.+The+essay+concentrates+almost+exclusively+on+the+Logical+Investigations+of+1900%2F01.+This+is+not+only+because+this+work%2C+which+is+surely+Husserl's+single+most+important+masterpiece%2C+has+been+overshadowed+first+of+all+by+his+Ideas+I+and+then+later+by+the+Crisis.+It+is+also+because+the+Investigations+contain%2C+in+a+peculiarly+clear+and+pregnant+form%2C+a+whole+panoply+of+ideas+on+logic+and+cognitive+theory+which+either+simply+disappeared+in+Husserl's+own+later+writings+or+became+obfuscated+by+an+admixture+of+that+great+mystery+which+is+'transcendental+phenomenology'.&rft.publisher=Lanham%3A+University+Press+of+America&rft.contributor=Mohanty%2C+J.+N.&rft.contributor=McKenna%2C+W.&rft.date=1989&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F298%2F1%2Flogic_and_formal_ontology.htm&rft.identifier=++Smith%2C+B.++(1989)+Logic+and+Formal+Ontology.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F298%2F