Before revision: The term 'formal ontology' itself was coined by Edmund Husserl in the second edition of his Logical Investigations ( 1913/1921 ), where it refers to an ontological counterpart of formal logic.
After revision: The term 'formal ontology' itself was coined by Edmund Husserl in the second edition of his Logical Investigations ( 1900–01 ), where it refers to an ontological counterpart of formal logic.