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or proposition. However, one can reflectively direct ones attention to the judged as such, to the judged state of affairs precisely as supposed in the judging; one might do so, for example, in those cases where one doubts the truth of the ju d gmen t , neutralizes ones accep tance o f it, and critically reflects upon it. In such a case, the state of affairs as supposed is not something o ne posits for o neself; o ne sim ply considers it for confirmation or disconfirmation as the state o f affairs supposed and affirmed by the person making the judgment. Hence, the judgment takes on a double character: the ontological character of the categorially formed, judged state of affairs, and the logical character of the judgment merely as such, the supposition as supposed, that is, the proposition in the logical sense. The intended state of affairs and the proposition are properly distinguished, therefore , b y m e a ns o f a d iffer e nc e in the way the m eant objectivity is focused. In the straightforward, natural-attitude focus on objects and the world , one apprehends the categorial object or state of affairs as such; in the critical focus on the state of affairs as supposed, i.e., on the supposition itself, one apprehends the judgment or proposition, m o re p recisely, the no em atic sense o f the intend ed state o f affairs, altho ug h it is o nly in a p h en omen ologic al re fle ction that one can recognize that the lo gical p ro p o sition is also the sense (Sinn) of the judging. The logical proposition also serves as the meaning (Bedeutung) of the declarative sentence expressing the judgment. See also APOPHANSIS ; C AT E G O R IA L A C T; JU D G E ; LO G IC ; N E U T R A LIZAT IO N ; PURE LOGICAL GRAM MAR. PROPOSITIONAL ACT. In the broadest sense, a propositional act might be considered any judging act. More narrowly, however, a propositional act is a critically reflective act that intends a proposition , that is, a supposed state of affairs just as supposed, in order to determine its truth or falsity or to consider its logical relation to other propositions. It is a modification of the originally straightforward judging act that intends the a rticulated state of affairs. S ee also J U D G E ; J U D G M E N T (S a tz) ; JUDGMENT (Urteil); LOGIC. PROTENTION. Protention is that phase within the momentary phase of consciousness or living present that inte nds ye t-to-c ome pha se s of absolute consciousness . See also INNER TIM E-CONSCIOUSNESS; PRIMAL IMPRESSION; RETENTION. PSYCHIC. The psychic is contrasted with the physical. In the Logical Investigations , what essentially characterizes the psychic (or psychical