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Kaart van Zuidelyk gedeelt van Afrika tot Verstand van de Twee Reizen van le Vaillant.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Leben und wurde in einer allerdings dem Verstand notwendigen Konsequenz schliesslich doch gefunden.
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Among the papers edited can be found Leibniz's 1696 letter to Gabriel Wagner, which contains the famous definition of logic or the art of reasoning as the art to use the intellect (Verstand), i.e., not only to evaluate what is imagined, but also to discover (invent) what is hidden.
Leibniz's Influence on 19th Century Logic Peckhaus, Volker 2009
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That Kafka is thinking here in terms of the higher dialectical logic of the coincidentia that liberates rather than the either-or Aristotelian sort that binds, is made clear in his closing characterization of Robinson's rescue as occurring "in einer allerdings dem Verstand notwendigen Konsequenz"
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(Verstehen) for Dilthey is a process that employs all our capacities and is to be distinguished from pure intellectual understanding (Verstand).
Wilhelm Dilthey Makkreel, Rudolf 2008
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Ich muß sehen, wenn die Bilder in meinem Verstand korrekt sind!
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(Verstand) yet at the same time postulating strongly the existence of “transcendental ideas.”
Dictionary of the History of Ideas FRANKLIN L. BAUMER 1968
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What is important is that Kant's conception of the mind's essentially active cognitive powers, his conception, that is, of Understanding (Verstand), of Judgment (Urteils - kraft), and of Reason (Vernunft) — particularly of the latter in its transcendent, or metaphysical, use — was developed in the context of current discussions about imagination and about creative activity in general.
METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION MICHAEL MORAN 1968
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(The second edition replaces “Witz” by “Verstand,” which does not alter the essential error of the rendering.)
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Also hat Ruben allen Verstand und gemeinen Witz oder Vernunft verloren.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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