UC Irvine

In Husserl’s idiom, the volition is a “moment”, or dependent part, of the action as a whole. Where successful, the action being in accord with the volition, the “act” of will is thus a part of the action that could not occur apart from the action. Husserl distinguished the “real” or temporally flowing content of an “act” of consciousness from the “ideal” meaning content entertained in the act. A particular account of phenomenological structure follows the “modal model” of consciousness. Husserl developed in effect a feedback loop as his analysis of the phenomenology of perception, judgment, and action both draws upon his formal ontology and grounds or justifies the ontology. The point should not be that the ontology is reduced to phenomenology, where being is reduced to appearance.