Husserl, martelo Long before the earliest draft of the sections of Being and Time devoted to this topic

Husserl had clearly underlined the need to make explicit, or bring to the fore, the pretheoretical "meaning" attached to or embedded in useful versus inert objects. In his Lectures on Nature and Spirit from 1919, he states, **I understand the significational unity that the word 'hammer' expresses by relating it back to that which posits the end, to the subject creating at any time useful means for purposeful productions of a definite type." The practical and bodily grasp of useful meanings, i.e., items endowed with meaning for use, is built on an essential understanding of motivational relations which extend through and beyond those particular items. *'A11 significance objectivities and significance predicates are judged in their manner of correlation as rational and irrational. [In this sense of 'rational'] the hammer is 'to be useful,' but it can be a good or a bad hammer