Sentence examples similar to it is prehended from inspiring English sources
The most important of these are the following: (a) prehension is a relation holding between a type of experience and particulars of such kind that adjectives like "red" and "hot" can be predicated of them; (b) it is logically possible that a particular that was prehended as having a certain quality could have had that quality regardless of whether anyone ever prehended it.
"If we use 'know' in such a way that what is known must be a fact, it is certain that prehending would not be a form of knowing.
For, if we prehend anything, it is particulars" (1952a, p. 14).
Broad does not think it is possible to give a strict definition of phrases such as "S prehends x as red" or the equivalent phrase "x sensibly presents itself to S as red".[3] What one can do is to contrast the notion of prehension with other notions: "The meaning of these phrases cannot be defined, it can only be exemplified.
One thing that is certain is that to prehend x as red is utterly different from judging that it is red or knowing that it is red" (1952a, p. 13; italics in original).
