vorstellungn.

1807–8 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1962) II. 3217 Emptiness & absence, silence, darkness as Spinoza observed whose pocket Mr Locke picked of it without after confession, are as positive Vorstellungen as Light, Sound, Image.

1865 J. Grote Exploratio Philosophica Pt. I i. iv. 60 Knowledge as acquaintance..is the kind of knowledge which we have of a thing by the presentation of it to the senses or the representation of it in a picture or type, a ‘vorstellung’.

1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. ix. 236 A permanently existing ‘idea’ or ‘Vorstellung’ which makes its appearance before the footlights of consciousness at periodical intervals, is as mythological an entity as the Jack of Spades.

1962 J. L. Austin's Sense & Sensibilia vi. 61 In Berkeley's doctrine there are only ideas, in Kant's only Vorstellungen (things-in-themselves being not strictly relevant here).