Sentence examples for apprehending it from inspiring English sources

It was not for him to dictate the meaning of a text (Kierkegaard's meanings are contradictory), but for his readers to exercise their autonomy in apprehending it.

Observation, as Brentano characterizes it, involves dedicating full attention to a phenomenon, with the aim of apprehending it accurately.

The picture, too, is a purely intentional object, created by an artist and founded both in a real painting (a paint-covered canvas), and in the viewer's operations of apprehending it.

Both of these thinkers proposed that "I could not apprehend anything as existing, unless I, first of all, experience myself as existing in the act of apprehending it" (PP, ix).

Religion provided truth in a symbolic form to nonphilosophers, who were not able to apprehend it in its purer forms.

For Descartes, the self, like every other substance, is not directly apprehended; it is understood only through its properties.

Thus, against then-current value-theoretical intuitionism, Sartre denies that value can "deliver itself to a contemplative intuition which would apprehend it as being value and thereby would derive from it its right over my freedom".

I make spaces that project light, apprehend it.

By carnal, I mean, Can you apprehend it through the five senses?

So you open it once more, this time attempting to apprehend it through his eyes.

If you find a boa constrictor in your garden, do not try to apprehend it.