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synonymous with hypothesis, suggestion, conjecture,or theorem 
which is the basis of the “understanding” (“Verstaendniss "): 
y i being in most instances expressive of so 
in to he popular cxprenion 
of “ jumping at a se pg coh essentially implies not the en- 
actnient of a ete Pas eaten ee but the antici- 
en ofa correct 
sciousness 
he an- 
de Tei is ely bya Poatey of explanatory suggestion, that is an- 
tecedent to logical test and prepares the matter and ground 
- tnd i 24 ee of the latter, that the human mind can en- 
