Aufgabe

noun2

1. •
   A task or assignment (involving such a predisposition).

   • The notion is thoroughly characteristic of the mystical level, and the Aufgabe of making it articulate was surely set to [Georg Wilhelm Friedrich] Hegel's intellect by mystical feeling. — 1902
2. •
   A predisposition toward particular mental operations inherent in the nature of a task or conveyed by the instructions for performing it.