Annahme  , admissão, aceitação, aceptación, acceptance, acceptio  

On the whole, “acceptance” [Annahme] has three different meanings.

1. To assume [Annehmen]: to expect [erwarten  ], to guess [vermuten], to think of something [sich etwas denken  ]

2. To be supposed [Angenommen]: suppose [gesetzt] that…, if…, then…; to suppose something as a condition [Bedingung], that is, as something which actually is not   and cannot be given in itself; acceptance as hypothesis  , as suppositio, literally, something to be “put under” [unterstellen] an object [Gegenstand  ]

3. Acceptance [Annahme]: accepting [Hinnahme] something that has been given; to keep oneself open [Sich-offen  -halten  ] for a thing, acceptio

In our context, the second and third meanings of “acceptance” are of special importance.

a. "Acceptance” can be taken to mean suppositio, hypothesis, “placing under.” For example, in Freud  ’s treatise on the parapraxes [Fehlhandlungen], [1] drives [Strebungen] and forces [Kräfte] are such suppositions. These supposed drives and forces cause and produce the phenomena. The parapraxes can be explained in such and such a way, that is, their origin can be proved.

b. Acceptance can be taken as accepting [Hinnehmen] something, as a pure and simple receiving-perceiving [ Vernehmen  ] of what shows itself from itself, as the manifest [Offenkundige], for instance, the existence of the table in front of us, accepted as that which cannot be proved by suppositions. Or, can you “prove” your own existence as such? That which is accepted by simple receiving-perceiving does not need to be proved. It shows itself. That which is received-perceived is itself the base and the ground [Grund  ], which founds and supports any assertion about it. Here we are dealing with a plain and simple showing of what is asserted. We get there by simply pointing it out. There is no further need for arguments here.

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The two ways of acceptance, supposition and accepting, are not on the same level in rank so that one or the other could be chosen arbitrarily. Rather, each supposition is always already grounded in a certain kind of acceptio. Only when the presence of something is accepted, can one have suppositions about it.

That which shows itself, the phenomenon, is what is accepted. [GA89MA  :5-6]