The Husserlian Lebenswelt and the Semantic Conception of Theories

Abstract

This article establishes some important similarities between Husserl’sthoughts about the nature of science and the semantic view of scientific theories. This last conception affirms that empirical theories do not describe the world as it is, but that they idealize and represent it using structural models. In this sense and prima facie, the semantic conception coincides with Husserl’s point of view regarding the life-world and the world of science.

Keywords

• Lebenswelt
• world of life
• world of science
• Husserl
• semantic view.