| 释义 |
preˈhend, v.
[ad. L. prehend-ĕre to grasp, seize, catch, for earlier præhendĕre (Plaut.), f. præ, pre- + *handĕre, cognate with Gr. χανδάν-ειν to take in, hold. Sometimes perh. aphetic f. apprehend.]
†a. trans. To seize, catch, apprehend. Obs. rare.
15..Stow in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) Pref. 15 note, They were greatly blamed that prehended hym and comitted hym. a1627Middleton Mayor of Quinborough v. i, Is not that Rebel Oliver, that Traytor to my year, Prehended yet? 1831T. Hope Ess. Origin Man II. 76 Vegetables and animals..for pursuing, prehending, and appropriating to themselves the substances they want for their further support,..want new external organs.
b. Philos. To apprehend with or without conscious formulation of the perceived object; to interact in time and space with an object or event. Cf. prehension 3 b. Hence preˈhended, preˈhending ppl. adjs.
1925A. N. Whitehead Sci. & Mod. World (1926) vi. 153 Then the enduring pattern is a pattern of aspects within the complete pattern prehended into the unity of A. 1927Auden & Day-Lewis in Oxf. Poetry p. vi, Emotion is no longer necessarily to be analysed by ‘recollection in tranquillity’: it is to be prehended emotionally and intellectually at once. 1929A. N. Whitehead Process & Reality 56 The essence of an actual entity consists solely in the fact that it is a prehending thing. 1933― Adventures of Ideas xiv. 268 There are the physical and the mental poles, and there are the objects prehended and the subjective forms of the prehensions. 1938C. D. Broad Exam. McTaggart's Philos. II. i. 4 When a person has repeatedly prehended certain particulars as having a certain characteristic C he may ‘form an idea of’ that characteristic. 1945R. G. Collingwood Idea of Nature iii. iii. 173 An iron filing prehends the magnetic field in which it lies, that is it converts that field into a mode of its own behaviour, responds to it. Ibid. 174 A plant prehends the sunlight. 1947Mind LVI. 97 In certain circumstances, when a person ‘sees’ a physical object, he visually prehends that physical object... In other cases what he visually prehends is, not the physical object.., but a particular which stands in a certain relation to the visum. 1959W. A. Christian Interpretation of Whitehead's Metaphysics i. 12 It has a subject (the prehending actual entity), an object or datum that is prehended, and a subjective form. 1971J. B. Cobb in D. Brown et al. Process Philos. & Christian Thought xii. 220 The new occasion prehends all the entities in its past. |