German lacks a natural verbal link between habit and contraction

Evidence

Luhmann uses in his writings the two words ‘Erfahrung’ and ‘Erleben’, which both translate as ‘experience’ in English. There is a semantic overlap between the two German words, but ‘Erleben’ is closer to the English ‘to experience something’, or ‘to go through some experience’, while ‘Erfahrung’ is closer to the notion of experience in the sense of ‘to be experienced in something’, that is, to learn something or to obtain knowledge about something by having gone through the experience. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 86 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The transition (µεταλ) from the first case to the second is nothing like the transition from the second to the third. The man who emerges from his condition of ignorance by learning something ‘has been acted upon through a change of quality, has passed through repeated transitions (πλλκις) from one state to its opposite’. This change is of a different nature than that by which ις is realized, where a state of actuality ( ντελ0εια) in the proper sense has been achieved. In fact, in the second case, the knower actualizes his potentiality by passing ‘in another way by the transition from the inactive possession of sense or grammar, without exercising them (µ4 νεργε!ν), to their active exercise’. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 445 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: German distinguishes momentary experience from accumulated knowledge through it; German distinguishes experiential living through from cumulative learning experience — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 86; Learning-by-alteration and actualizing-a-habit are two different kinds of transition — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 445 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• German distinguishes experiential living through from cumulative learning experience #corroborates (0.90) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 86
• German distinguishes momentary experience from accumulated knowledge through it #corroborates (0.85)
• Learning-by-alteration and actualizing-a-habit are two different kinds of transition #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 445
• Language resists self-knowledge exactly as the body does #corroborates (0.72)