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- Editor's Note: This paper was delivered by Dorion Cairns in the Symposium on “Theory of Intentionality in Brentano, Meinong, and Husserl” at the Fifty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Western Division of the American Philosophical Association held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison on Friday, 1 May 1959. The other two papers scheduled were by Roderick M. Chisholm of Brown University, and D. Burnham Terrell of the University of Minnesotta. Fred Kersten was present and remembers that Cairns's paper was well received, but the only significant discussion that arose from it was with Charles Hartshorne and revolved around an apparently long-standing dispute between them as to the legitimacy of the idea of givenness in Husserl. He also relevantly recalls that Cairns once began a lecture on intentionality at the New School by saying, “In the beginning was not the Word, nor in the beginning was the Deed, but instead in the beginning was Synthesis.” That was how he interpreted and presented Husserl in the late 1950s. This text has been edited by Embree from a transcription of the original handwritten manuscript made by Mr. Edward Rackley, the emphases are Cairns's, some changes have been made within brackets, and the sources of notes have also been indicated. Their work has been reviewed by Kersten and Zaner.
- Editor's note: This paragraph, except for the last sentence, was marked for deletion.
- Editor's note: In later lectures and manuscripts, Cairns replaced retentiveness with retrotentiveness in order to parallel protentiveness and spoke of X as retrotentive to Y, etc.
- Editor's note; This title taken from an excised passage in order to parallel the use of shoulder titles below.
- Editor's Note: This title is also taken from an excised passage in order to parallel the use of shoulder headings elsewhere. At this time Cairns used both distinguishing and differentiating in such ways that it is not clear if they are different or not and if so how one relates to the other.
- Editor's Note: This differentiation of levels was not actually discussed earlier, but will be briefly discussed presently.
- Editor's Note: This paragraph was composed at this point, but then, presumably upon consideration of the length already reached of the paper, deleted. We have restored it to the body of the text.