understanding

…historical reason, who viewed “understanding” (Verstehen) as the procedure and thus as the proper method of the human sciences. Understanding, according to Dilthey, consists in the reliving and reproducing of the experience of others. Hence, it is also a feeling together with others and a sympathetic participation in their…

…the distinction between sense and understanding. Sense is not, as Leibniz had supposed, a confused form of thinking but a source of knowledge in its own right, although the objects so known are still only “appearances”—the term that Leibniz also used. They are appearances because all sensing is conditioned by…

…the levels of intuition and understanding (or between the receptivity and spontaneity of the mind) had to be rejected—for the three transcendentals—space and time, the categories, and the ideas of reason—were not existents but were only functions of thought. Finally, these disciples argued that the existence of a single transcendental…