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APPREHENSION (Lat. ad, to; prehendere...

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 227 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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APPREHENSION (See also:Lat. ad, to; prehendere, to seize)  , in See also:psychology, a See also:term applied to a mode of consciousness in which nothing is affirmed or denied of the See also:object in question, but the mind is merely aware of (" seizes ") it . " See also:Judgment " (says See also:Reid, ed . See also:Hamilton, i. p . 414) " is an See also:act of the mind specifically different from See also:simple See also:apprehension or the See also:bare conception of a thing "; and again, " Simple apprehension or conception can neither be true nor false." This distinction provides for the large class of See also:mental acts in which we are simply aware of or " take in " a number of See also:familiar See also:objects, about which we in See also:general make no judgment unless our See also:attention is suddenly called by a new feature . Or again two alternatives may be apprehended without any resultant judgment as to their respective merits . Similarly G . F . Stout points out that while we have a very vivid See also:idea of a See also:character or an incident in a See also: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 See also:state may be compared the purely aesthetic contemplation of See also:music, wherein apart from, say, a false See also:note, the See also:faculty of judgment is for the See also:time inoperative . To these examples may be added the fact that one can fully understand an See also:argument in all its See also: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 See also:kind of thought there is judgment of some sort in a greater or less degree of prominence .

Judgment and thought are in fact psychologically distinguishable merely as different, though correlative, activities of See also:

con- sciousness .

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