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@article{Fisette2011PhenomenologyAP,
  title={Phenomenology and Phenomenalism: Ernst Mach and the Genesis of Husserl’s phenomenology},
  author={Denis Fisette},
  journal={Axiomathes},
  year={2011},
  volume={22},
  pages={53 - 74},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:254256212}
}

How do we reconcile Husserl’s repeated criticism of Mach’s phenomenalism almost everywhere in his work with the leading role that Husserl seems to attribute to Mach in the genesis of his own phenomenology? To answer this question, we shall examine, first, the narrow relation that Husserl establishes between his phenomenological method and Mach’s descriptivism. Second, we shall examine two aspects of Husserl’s criticism of Mach: the first concerns phenomenalism and Mach’s doctrine of elements… 

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Philosophy of Arithmetic

It is here that the Husserlian idea of a universal arithmetic receives its first formulation, the full elaboration of which will take at least ten more years, until his research on these topics reaches its stable form in 1901.