prehension
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prehension
- /prɪˈhɛnʃən/
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin prehensio, prehensionis. Doublet of prison.
noun prehensions
- The act of grasping or gripping, especially with the hands.
- 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. 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 corre
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