Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretiert; es kömmt aber darauf an, sie zu verändern.
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Oxford English Dictionary: interpret
1. a. trans. To expound the meaning of (something abstruse or mysterious); to render (words, writings, an author, etc.) clear or explicit; to elucidate; to explain.
Formerly, also, To translate (now only contextually, as included in the general sense).
b. To make out the meaning of, explain to oneself.
c. In recent use: To bring out the meaning of (a dramatic or musical composition, a landscape, etc.) by artistic representation or performance; to give one's own interpretation of; to render.
d. To obtain significant information from (a photograph), used esp. of aerial photographs taken for military purposes.
2. a. To give a particular explanation of; to expound or take in a specified manner. Also, To construe (motives, actions, etc.) favourably or adversely. (In quot. 1709, To attribute to.)
b. To render, explain, or translate by a specified term. Obs.
3. absol. or intr. To make an explanation; to give an exposition; spec. to act as an interpreter or dragoman.
Formerly, also, in general sense, To translate.
4. intr. To signify, to mean. Obs.
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Wikipedia:Verstehen
Verstehen is (German for understanding and interpretation of meaning, pronounced "fehr-SHTEH-ehn", IPA: [fɛɾ'ʂteːɘn]), used as an adjective in Interpretative Sociology (verstehende Soziologie). It was brought into social science (Geisteswissenschaften) by Wilhelm Dilthey and Max Weber to describe a process in which an outside observer of a culture (such as an anthropologist or sociologist) relates to an indigenous people or sub-cultural group on their own terms, rather than interpreting them in terms of his or her own concepts.
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The New English-German Dictionary:Verstehen
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