Wissenschaftn.

1834 F. D. Maurice Let. 24 July in F. Maurice Life (1884) I. xi. 168 My friend adds, ‘..They all seem to think Wissenschaft..more important than soundness of creed.’

1961 D. G. James Matthew Arnold iv. 93 By ‘science’ he does not, of course, mean ‘science’ as we now ordinarily understand it; he means Wissenschaft, that is, as he says elsewhere, ‘knowledge systematically pursued and prized in and for itself’.

1976 B. Williams Making Manch. Jewry iv. 108 The emergence of Theodores as..a major English representative of the German Wissenschaft.

1982 C. Clemeau Ariadne Clue (1983) xi. 120 These fragments are painstakingly collected, published..and roundly applauded as the choicest fruits of philological Wissenschaft.

1846 J. D. Moreau Hist. & Crit. View Speculative Philos. II. v. 72 Fichte's object was..to erect a system..of rigid scientific knowledge... Hence it was that, in place of ‘Philosophy’ he assumed the term ‘Wissenschaftslehre’, as most designative of his great purpose.

1896 W. Caldwell Schopenhauer's Syst. ix. 503 That most vicious aspect of German philosophy, so prominent in the Hegelian dialectic and Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre, whereby it always seems to be telling us what a fact must be before we know what it is.