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| ==Origin== | | ==Origin== |
| [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Late Latin apprehension-, apprehensio, from [[Latin]] apprehendere | | [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Late Latin apprehension-, apprehensio, from [[Latin]] apprehendere |
− | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] | + | *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] |
| ==Definitions== | | ==Definitions== |
| *1a : the [[act]] or [[power]] of [[perceiving]] or [[comprehending]] <a person of dull apprehension> | | *1a : the [[act]] or [[power]] of [[perceiving]] or [[comprehending]] <a person of dull apprehension> |
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| "[[Judgment]]" (says Reid, ed. Hamilton, i. p. 414) "is an [[act]] of the [[mind]], specifically [[different]] from simple apprehension or the bare [[conception]] of a [[thing]]". "Simple apprehension or conception can neither be true nor false." This distinction provides for the large class of mental [[acts]] in which we are simply [[aware]] of, or "take in" a number of familiar objects, about which we in general make no judgment, unless our [[attention]] is suddenly called by a new feature. Or again, two alternatives may be apprehended without any resultant [[judgment]] as to their respective merits. | | "[[Judgment]]" (says Reid, ed. Hamilton, i. p. 414) "is an [[act]] of the [[mind]], specifically [[different]] from simple apprehension or the bare [[conception]] of a [[thing]]". "Simple apprehension or conception can neither be true nor false." This distinction provides for the large class of mental [[acts]] in which we are simply [[aware]] of, or "take in" a number of familiar objects, about which we in general make no judgment, unless our [[attention]] is suddenly called by a new feature. Or again, two alternatives may be apprehended without any resultant [[judgment]] as to their respective merits. |
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− | Similarly, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stout G.F. Stout] stated that while we have a very vivid [[idea]] of a [[character]] or an incident in a [[work]] of [[fiction]], we can hardly be said in any real sense to have any [[belief]] or to make any judgment as to its [[existence]] or [[truth]]. With this mental state may be compared the purely [[aesthetic]] [[contemplation]] of [[music]], wherein apart from, say, a false note, the [[faculty]] of [[judgment]] is for the time inoperative. To these examples may be added the [[fact]] that one can fully [[understand]] an [[argument]] in all its bearings, without in any way judging its validity. Without going into the question fully, it may be pointed out that the distinction between [[judgment]] and ''apprehension'' is [[relative]]. In every kind of [[thought]], there is judgment of some sort in a greater or less [[degree]] of prominence. | + | Similarly, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stout G.F. Stout] stated that while we have a very vivid [[idea]] of a [[character]] or an incident in a [[work]] of [[fiction]], we can hardly be said in any real sense to have any [[belief]] or to make any judgment as to its [[existence]] or [[truth]]. With this mental state may be compared the purely [[aesthetic]] [[contemplation]] of [[music]], wherein apart from, say, a false note, the [[faculty]] of [[judgment]] is for the time inoperative. To these examples may be added the [[fact]] that one can fully [[understand]] an [[argument]] in all its bearings, without in any way judging its validity. Without going into the question fully, it may be pointed out that the distinction between [[judgment]] and ''apprehension'' is [[relative]]. In every kind of [[thought]], there is judgment of some sort in a greater or less [[degree]] of prominence. |
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− | Judgment and [[thought]] are in fact [[psychologically]] distinguishable merely as [[different]], though correlative, [[activities]] of [[consciousness]]. Professor Stout further investigates the [[phenomena]] of apprehension, and comes to the conclusion that "it is possible to distinguish and identify a [[whole]] without apprehending any of its constituent details." On the other hand, there is an [[expectation]] that such details will, as it were, emerge into [[consciousness]]. Hence, he describes such apprehension as "implicit", and insofar as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implication_(pragmatics) implicit] apprehension [[determines]] the order of such [[emergence]], he describes it as "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schematic schematic]". | + | Judgment and [[thought]] are in fact [[psychologically]] distinguishable merely as [[different]], though correlative, [[activities]] of [[consciousness]]. Professor Stout further investigates the [[phenomena]] of apprehension, and comes to the conclusion that "it is possible to distinguish and identify a [[whole]] without apprehending any of its constituent details." On the other hand, there is an [[expectation]] that such details will, as it were, emerge into [[consciousness]]. Hence, he describes such apprehension as "implicit", and insofar as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implication_(pragmatics) implicit] apprehension [[determines]] the order of such [[emergence]], he describes it as "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schematic schematic]". |
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− | A good example of this [[process]] is the use of formulae in [[calculation]]s; ordinarily the [[formula]] is used without question; if [[attention]] is fixed upon it, the steps by which it is shown to be [[universally]] applicable emerge, and the "schema " is complete in detail. With this result may be compared [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant Kant]'s theory of apprehension as a synthetic [[act]] (the "synthesis of apprehension") by which the sensory elements of a [[perception]] are subjected to the [[formal]] conditions of [[time and space]]. | + | A good example of this [[process]] is the use of formulae in [[calculation]]s; ordinarily the [[formula]] is used without question; if [[attention]] is fixed upon it, the steps by which it is shown to be [[universally]] applicable emerge, and the "schema " is complete in detail. With this result may be compared [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant Kant]'s theory of apprehension as a synthetic [[act]] (the "synthesis of apprehension") by which the sensory elements of a [[perception]] are subjected to the [[formal]] conditions of [[time and space]]. |
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