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(Aktualität) is the realization of a potentiality; 4. Actuality is the qua lity of

be ing an actua lity. See also EVIDENCE.

ADEQUACY (A däquation ) . Adequacy is a property of evidence , and one of the types of absolute evidence that Husserl identifies. An evidence isadequate when it is complete, that is, when the evidencing act that fulfillsan empty intention grasps the object in its entirety. Husserl always deniedthat adequate evidence was available for transcendent objects. Althoughhe believed early in his career that an experience could be adequatelygrasped in phenomeno logical reflection , he abandoned that position as a

resu l t o f h i s r e f l ec t ions on i n n e r t i m e - co n s c i o u s n e s s . S e e a l s oAPODICTICITY.

ADEQUATION (adequatio) . Adequation is the fittingness of one thing toanother. Ordinarily used in the correspondence theory of truth to indicatethe adequacy of our ideas to the things themselves, Husserl transforms thisnotion of adequacy into that of “covering” or “ congruence ” (Deckung) . Inthe experience of fulfillment , one experiences the fulfilling sen se aslaying itself over or a s covering the emptily intended sen se in a manner analogous to that in which one figure congruent with another can througha series of rigid transformations be laid over that other figure so that thetwo figures are coincident. Hence, the experience of fulfillment and of truth involves experiencing a coincidence or identity between the emptilyintended sense and the fulfilling sense. See also EMPTY INTENTION.

ADUMBRATION (Abschattung) . An object is perceived in a certain spatial perspective or under a certain aspect or with a certain shading. T he

pe rspective, aspect, or shad ing is an adumbration, a partial disc losure of the object. Th e perceived obj ect, then, is an identity presented in amanifold of adumbrations. Husserl’s use of the term “adumbration” is ,however, somewhat ambiguous. He uses the term to refer both to the

presented perspective, aspect, or shading and to the sensible event that“adumbrates” the o bject. W ith respect to the latter usage, Husserl refersmore specifically to the hyletic data , the presenting sensations that areanimated or interpreted by the perceptual apprehension in perceiving theobject. See also APPEARANCE.

AFFECTION. Affection is the original stimulation of consciousness in itspassivity . Affection is not to be understood in causal terms. It is consistentwith an intentional account of consciousness insofar as there is no genuineaffection without consciousness’s turning-to the affecting object. As the