Sentence examples for direct apprehension from inspiring English sources

Intuition is an unmediated mental "seeing," or direct apprehension.

According to Hegel, there is no such thing as direct apprehension, or unmediated knowledge.

Intuitionists have differed over the kinds of moral truths that are amenable to direct apprehension.

Rationalists, on the contrary, urge that some, though not all, knowledge arises through direct apprehension by the intellect.

Because no provision is made for any such direct apprehension in the scientific worldview, the concept has been summarily dismissed.

Because of his view that "the good" is knowable by direct apprehension, he became known as an "ethical intuitionist".

On her view, they constitute intuitions just in the same sense as traditional intuitionists claim: they are direct apprehensions of non-natural states of affairs.

And with the visual arts or dance or architecture you have a direct visual apprehension of the thing that you're looking at.

Society of Friends, also called Friends Church, byname Quakers, Christian group that arose in mid-17th-century England, dedicated to living in accordance with the "Inward Light," or direct inward apprehension of God, without creeds, clergy, or other ecclesiastical forms.

According to Eliot, the dissociation of sensibility was a result of the natural development of poetry after the Metaphysical poets, who had felt "their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose"; this phenomenon the "direct sensuous apprehension of thought," or the fusion of thought and feeling which Eliot called a mechanism of sensibility, was lost by later poets.

Hence the more direct the apprehension of Forms, the closer a human mind can approach Truth.