Erkenntnisfaehigkeit, distilled into its parts, is recognition-ability. It is often translated cognitive ability. Yet recognition and cognition need not be coextensive.

It is not the ability to recognize patterns per se, but the ability to recognize that we recognize something. What does this mean?

The escape of one man into his dreams is the trap of ideology.

A person and his or her dreams is a phrase which covers a set of sociological phenomena involving the trick of self-actualization. No one wants to be considered a failure, and the prevailing complex of culture in the United States and many other locations is that to be considered a success requires beating the system, not merely finding a way in which to thrive in it.