Note 28 — Front matter (continued 2)

Fichte's word is Anschauung, for which the English language possesses no exact equivalent. It "implies something akin, though perhaps superior to, seeing or perceiving by means of the senses," and it approaches less closely to "inspiration" than does the English word "intuition." The term acquired a meaning somewhat akin to the amor intellectualis Dei of Spinoza, which we have met before. (See note in Merz, III, p. 445.)