Anschauungn.

1820 T. Hodgskin Trav. N. Germany II. x. 341 Die Anschauung is one of Kant's fundamental powers; he defines it thus: By whatever art, and by whatever means, any knowledge of any object whatever may exist, that to which it is immediately related, and by which all thoughts as their medium exist, is the Anschauung.

1865 J. S. Mill Exam. Hamilton's Philos. xviii. 352 It is the Anschauungen, the intuitions, the presentations of experience, which we in this case compare and judge.

1901 J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. I. 569/1 High authorities have of late questioned the equivalence of intuition and the Kantian Anschauung.

1948 B. Soper in P. Russell Exam. Ezra Pound (1950) 233 Pound's technique..is..the practical result of a..belief that the precept or moment of interpreted ‘onsight’—Anschauung—is the key to reality.

2009 L. K. Nyhart Mod. Nature v. 171 Educators had long taken the combination of observation and intuition known as Anschauung as essential to elementary education and a necessary first step to developing higher levels of comprehension, and instruction in Anschauung, especially in the first few years of school, focused on the material world immediately around the child.

1895 A. B. Thompson Unity of Fichte's Doctr. Knowl. App. 194 Any product of thought may become an Anschauung, a ‘view’ of the thinker.

1907 G. B. Shaw Major Barbara Pref. in John Bull's Other Island 148 The Shavian Anschauung was already unequivocally declared.

1922 Internat. Jrnl. Psycho-anal. 3 377 In many respects however they..are merely ‘points of view’ (Anschauungen).

1994 G. Adair tr. G. Perec Void i. iii. 29 Aignan..would soon grow cool and nonchalant, fortifying his worldly wisdom, magnifying his vision of his surroundings, his Anschauung, and crossing paths with many curious and intriguing individuals.