Conventional truths are mere errors that appear real to the ordinary beings, but they are in fact no more real than the falling hairs that are reducible into the "modes of apprehensions" (snang tshul).
On the other hand, many of those paintings wouldn't necessarily be recognized as being among the world's greatest works of art if sensibility hadn't once been a governing mode of apprehension.
They are dealing with the psychology of music, in which certain elements e.g., music, listener, mode of apprehension, cultural context are indispensable and in which characteristic processes recur.
As a synthetic mode of apprehension, apperception is caused by a multiplicity of factors including memories, expectations, dispositions, etc.
Moral reality, so conceived, is posited as sui generis, reducible to neither the natural nor the supernatural and requiring a mode of apprehension comparable to mathematical intuition.
"Just as in the seventeenth century it is allegory that becomes the canon of dialectical images, in the nineteenth century it is novelty" (AP, 11): "The commodity has taken the place of the allegorical mode of apprehension".
By showing how each mode of apprehension involved certain necessary and distinct limitations on its employment, Kant was able to show that certain kinds of assertion in theology and metaphysics could not be genuine knowledge-claims.
As we saw when considering philosophies of taste and the formation of the idea of the aesthetic, the literal sense of taste has customarily never been considered a truly "aesthetic" sense, its pleasures and mode of apprehension being too bodily and sensuous to qualify.
Already in the earliest strata of the canonical literature we find a tripartite model of cognition in which a clear distinction is made between the phenomenal world, its mode of apprehension, and the specific type of consciousness by which it is apprehended.
For Leibniz, the status of a proposition its truth or falsity, necessity or contingency was dependent not on its mode of apprehension (as it was for Descartes and Locke), which could vary from person to person, but on its method of proof, which was an objectively determinable matter.
