Georges Seurat was moving away from the empirical standpoint of Impressionism toward a technique (Pointillism) and a form that were increasingly deliberately designed.
Brentano then began writing one of his best-known and most influential works, Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkte (1874; "Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint"), in which he tried to present a systematic psychology that would be a science of the soul.
The concept of intentionality, the directedness of the consciousness toward an object, which is a basic concept in phenomenology, was already present in Brentano's Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkte (1874; Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint): "And thus we can define psychic phenomena by saying that they are those phenomena which, precisely as intentional, contain an object in themselves".
Whether human capital increases or decreases earnings uncertainty is an open question from an empirical standpoint.
In Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint, Brentano said that every psychical phenomenon is characterized by "intentional inexistence".
As a consequence, unsatisfactory results call for further investigation from both the theoretical and the empirical standpoint.
A further question, from an empirical standpoint, is whether we could test for Goodmanian denotation as might characterize, among architectural objects, successful symbolic functioning across persons.
When Weierstrass got seriously ill, Masaryk suggested that Husserl go back to Vienna, to study philosophy with Franz Brentano, the author of Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint (1874).
After his Habilitation, Brentano had started to work on a large scale work on the foundations of psychology, which he entitled Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint.
After the introduction of the notion of intentionality in his Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint (1874), Brentano struggled to account for the ontological status of the intentional object.
The main elements of Brentano's theory of judgement can be found in chapter 7 and appendix IX of his Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint (1874, 1911).
