This article discusses the place of experience in the origins of phenomenology in Husserl's Prolegomena to Pure Logic (1900). It is shown that Husserl assumes a specific position regarding the role of experience in the debate on the relationship between logic and psychology. The article also discusses the effects of the Husserlian position in Ideas I (1913) concerning the issue of the constitution of intentional objects. Husserl indicates the critical role assumed by sense data, which serve as "support" for intentionality. It is pointed out that the giving of meaning that occurs through intentional acts of consciousness does not derive from sense data; however, it also does not start without such data.
Phenomenology; Husserl; Experience; Sense data; Intentional living