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See also: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
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton, i. p. 414) " is an See also:act of the mind specifically different from See also:simple 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 (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
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.
End of Article: APPREHENSION (Lat. ad, to; prehendere, to seize)
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