prehension

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of grasping or gripping, especially with the hands. countable,uncountable
  2. According to Alfred North Whitehead, a type of universally acting perception that is not limited to living, self-conscious beings, and which involves an interconnectedness of the observer and the observed. countable,uncountable
    — The addiction to punning was related to a reverence for the "Word." In a pun or a hieroglyphic figure, several lines come together in what Whitehead would call "a prehension"; in the comprehension of an event, that sympathetic resonance between the observor and the "thing" observed, there is a correspondence between the cosmic word of the gods (the Logos of St. John) and the inner words of the human mind, for each shares existence because it is a manifestation of divine laws and harmony.

词形变化

prehensions plural

词汇关系

相关词
apprehension prehensile prehensive

词源

Borrowed from Latin prehensio, prehensionis. Doublet of prison.
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