Anschauung

[ahn-shou-oo ng, -uh ng]

noun Philosophy.

direct or immediate intuition or perception of sense data with little or no rational interpretation.

Origin of Anschauung

1855–60; < German: view, equivalent to anschau(en) to view (an- on, at + schauen to look) + -ung -ing¹

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Related Words for anschauung

outlook, angle, orientation, attitude, perspective, position, standpoint, opinion, viewpoint, eye, slant

Examples from the Web for anschauung

Historical Examples of anschauung

Intuition (Anschauung) as used by Kant, is external or internal.
The Aesthetical Essays
Friedrich Schiller
Fichte's word is Anschauung, for which the English language possesses no exact equivalent.
Religion and Science
John Charlton Hardwick
The psychological distinction between the three forms is that sensuous perception (Anschauung) 3.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2
Various

Word Origin and History for anschauung

Anschauung

"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.