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  1. What Makes Natural Language “Natural”? A Phenomenological Proposal.Horst Ruthrof - 2024 - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 55 (4):359-377.
    The paper answers the title question via its methodological commitment to a Husserlian description of the acts of consciousness which we cannot but perform when we engage in linguistic communication. Familiarizing the reader with the central terms of the German Vorstellung and Vorstellbarkeit (imaginability) and their prominence in phenomenological inquiry in the Introduction, the paper addresses major uses of Vorstellung from Kant to Husserl, before identifying imaginability as the hidden core of natural language, captured in a re-definition of language and (...)
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