Note: this assignment is for students in Group II only.
Please respond to the following question in
approximately two pages (double spaced). (Needless to say this should
be your own original work.)
In the opening paragraphs of Ideas §13
(pp. 26-7) Husserl makes a distinction between ``specialization'' and
``de-formalization.'' As an example he discusses (a) the relationship
between the essence triangle and the genus spatial
shape vs. (b) the relationship between the essence triangle and the form essence. How does this example
relate to the distinction? What is it supposed to show? Why is it
supposedly clear that relationships (a) and (b) are not the same?