Understanding (intellectus) and demonstrative knowledge are "like the vision of healthy eyes through the medium of pure air with clear light spread over the colored object…Understanding and demonstrative knowledge apprehend things in the purity of their essence, as they are in themselves" (Rossi 1981, 279 280).
And they've — they're really apprehending thousands of people.
Their minds apprehend the evolution of knowledge and, to some extent, share fundamental discoveries.
Attorney General John Ashcroft disclosed for the first time today that the government had apprehended suspects who were believed to have had advance knowledge of the Sept. 11 hijackings.
Mystical experience is alleged to be "noetic," involving knowledge of what a subject apprehends (see James, 1958).
Moses, the wisest of men, performed miracles in Egypt because "he had acquired knowledge of the celestial body… as he had apprehended the world of the [four sublunar] elements" (Menorat Kesef, p. 93).
We had a lengthy conversation, in which he indicated having knowledge of the (previously mentioned) person who had been apprehended by the police, but that he could not discuss the details or these previous cases with me, as the investigation was ongoing.
Spinoza's "see in one glance" is thus very much like Eliot's "directness of sense"; for both of them the highest form of knowledge involves apprehending a particular problem, idea, situation, or entity in a nondiscursive, immediate, straight-ahead manner of comprehension.
In order to better apprehend their growing importance in our current environment, our knowledge of the evolution and fate of these soils must be improved.
Aristotle took the rationalist view that every science or body of knowledge must resemble Euclidean geometry in consisting of deductions from first principles that are self-evidently and necessarily true and that, although the senses acquaint humans with the sensible forms of things, there cannot be knowledge of them unless reason is brought into play to apprehend their intelligible forms.
The divide between the full ontological object and the part that has been apprehended shifts as knowledge develops.
