Formal and material ontology

Liliana Albertazzi

pp. 199-232

in: Roberto Poli, Peter Simons (eds), Formal ontology, Berlin, Springer, 1996

Abstract

We owe the concept of formal ontology to Husserl, who called it the "formal theory' of objects. However, the concept of formal as used by Husserl in his definition should not be understood in the conventional sense, since in his thought "formal' is equivalent to "categorial'; it is closely connected with the structures of the intentional acts and, as we shall see, has morphodynamic implications.

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund