Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"sense-perception," c.1856, from German Anschauung "mode of view," literally "looking at," from anschauen "to look at," from Middle High German aneschouwen (related to show (v.)). A term in Kantian philosophy.
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n. (context philosophy Kantianism English) Sense-perception.
Usage examples of "anschauung".
All thought therefore must, directly or indirectly, go back to intuitions (Anschauungen), i.
An intuition (Anschauung) of an object, by means of sensation, is called empirical.
And this pure form of sensibility may be called the pure intuition (Anschauung).
In the course of this investigation it will appear that there are, as principles of a priori knowledge, two pure forms of sensuous intuition (Anschauung), namely, Space and Time.
The internal sense by means of which the mind perceives itself or its internal state, does not give an intuition (Anschauung) of the soul (Seele) itself, as an object, but it is nevertheless a fixed form under which alone an intuition of its internal state is possible, so that whatever belongs to its internal determinations (Bestimmungen) must be represented in relations of time.
The proposition 'all things are beside each other in space,' is valid only under the limitation that things are taken as objects of our sensuous intuition (Anschauung).
Kant, through his inquiry into man's Urteilskraft, arrived at the conclusion that man is denied the power of Anschauung (intuition).