The problem of universals remains a philosophical theme not only in ontology but also in
epistemology. In Husserl, there are particular universals, the noematic ‘X’, the identical, and
universals stricto sensu, atemporal universal names. In this paper, I present the theme as it is
analyzed by Husserl in Ideas I. In the first section, I describe the trajectory to the universals
highlighting the parallelism between noese and noema. In the second section, I draw the
reflection of this problem on the philosophy of language which is also affected by the noeticnoematic
correspondence. In the third and last section, I show how the investigation about the
universals moves in the noematic sphere, and conclude defending the possibility of reaching
the universal strict sense departing from the noematic ‘X’
