The study raises the question of the sustainability of Husserl’s early theory of linguistic meaning. In order to answer it, the text presents Husserl’s theory of linguistic meaning as it is found in his Logical Investigations and discusses a serious problem which follows from Husserl’s own presuppositions. This problem involves the question of the expressibility of the quality of the intentional essence of the act –“quality” being Husserl’s term roughly corresponding to the later and more common concept of propositional attitude. The study argues for the lack of theoretical means sufficient for the expression of the quality as well as for the fact that the expressibility of the quality is presupposed in the meaning of the linguistic expressions used in the solitary life of the speaker.