On Not Living in the Primordial World : Husserl's Correction of his Fifth Cartesian Meditation ROBERT WELSH JORDAN This essay was presented in 1987 at a. the 19th annual meeting of the Husserl Circle at Washington University and later that year at b. the University of Notre Dame as part of the 24th annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. It was being reserved as my solicited contribution to an anthology that hasn't materialized honoring a friend and colleague. It has never appeared in print. I have numbered the paragraphs as a convenience since there is no standard pagination. SCREEN DISPLAY. Browsers that display pages on this site with something very like the originally intended colors are Opera and Google. The others that I am familiar with convert the pages to standard black foreground on light background. Even Microsoft's Internet Explorer does that although the pages were generated using Microsoft's Front Page 2003. Among word processors, Open Office will display pretty much as meant, Word will not. PRINTING. Pages should print in the usual manner: black foreground on light background despite the screen display colors. Abstract 1. In Cartesian Meditations, Husserl's account of intersubjectivity is flawed so seriously that the reader derives from it a quite distorted view of cognitive development. These flaws are widely acknowledged in the literature, but it has not been noticed that Husserl himself corrected the worst of them in manuscripts written only five to six months after the book manuscript was given to the French translators. These manuscripts were first published in Husserliana XV (l973) some fourteen years ago.