Form of Apprehension and the Content-Apprehension Model in Husserl’s Logical Investigations

An act’s form of apprehension ( Auffassungsform ) determines whether it is a perception, an imagination, or a signitive act. It must be distinguished from the act’s quality, which determines whether the act is, for instance, assertoric, merely entertaining, wishing, or doubting. The notion of form of apprehension is explained by recourse to the so-called content-apprehension model ( Inhalt-Auffassung Schema ); it is characteristic of the Logical Investigations that in it all objectifying acts are analyzed in terms of that model. The distinction between intuitive and signitive acts is made, and the notion of saturation ( Fülle ) is described, by recourse to the notion of form of apprehension.