Husserl’s Logical Grammar is intended to explain how complex expressions can be constructed out of simple ones so that their meaning turns out to be determined by the meanings of their constituent parts and the way they are put together. Meanings are thus understood as structured contents and classified into formal categories to the effect that the logical properties of expressions reflect their grammatical properties. As long as linguistic meaning reduces to the intentional content of pre-linguistic representations, however, it is not trivial to account for how semantics relates to syntax in this context. In this paper, I analyze Husserl’s Logical Grammar as a system of recursive rules operating on representations and suggest that the syntactic form of representations (both mental and linguistic) contributes to their semantics because it carries information about semantic role. I further discuss Husserl’s syntactic account of the unity of propositions and argue that, on this account, logical form supervenes on syntactic form. In the last section I draw some implications for the phenomenology of thought and conjecture that the structural features it displays are likely to convey the syntactic structures of an underlying language-like representational system.

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胡塞尔论意义、语法和内容结构

胡塞尔的逻辑语法旨在解释如何从简单的表达式中构造复杂的表达式，从而使它们的含义由其组成部分的含义及其组合方式决定。因此，意义被理解为结构化的内容，并被分类为形式类别，从而使表达的逻辑特性反映它们的语法特性。然而，只要语言意义归结为前语言表征的有意内容，在这种情况下解释语义如何与句法相关就不是微不足道的。在本文中，我将胡塞尔的逻辑语法分析为对表征进行操作的递归规则系统，并建议表征的句法形式（心理和语言）对其语义有贡献，因为它携带有关语义角色的信息。我进一步讨论了胡塞尔对命题统一性的句法说明，并认为，在这种情况下，逻辑形式出现在句法形式上。在最后一节中，我对思想现象学提出了一些启示，并推测它所显示的结构特征可能传达潜在的类似语言的表征系统的句法结构。