Definition and Description at Brentano and Husserl. Language-Games in the Phenomenology of Consciousness

In the article logic preconditions of the concept of description at Brentano and Husserl are considered, in particular, a connection between the doctrine of the definition and the practice of the description of consciousness. Originality of Brentanos doctrine is that he has departed from the Aristotelian principle of dichotomizing differentiation of generic concepts. On the contrary, Husserl comes back to an Aristotelian principle of differentiation of generic definitions and confirms an intentionality as a generic property of acts of the consciousness. The author shows how divergences in the logic theory of concept have caused many essential distinctions at Brentano and Husserl in practice of description and in interpretation of the structures of acts of the consciousness.