Prehend

: Break down the Latin prehendere and show its family tree (Apprehend, Comprehend, Prison).

"Prehend" is a philosophical and linguistic term most often used in (developed by Alfred North Whitehead) to describe how an individual entity perceives or "grasps" other entities to form its own experience. prehend

In the work of Alfred North Whitehead, specifically in Process and Reality , "prehend" is the verb for . : Break down the Latin prehendere and show

: Explain "prehend" as a "feeling" or "incorporation" of the environment. specifically in Process and Reality

: To seize or grasp at —to arrest or to perceive with dread.

: Grasping "eternal objects" (pure potentials or ideas).