Sentence examples for our apprehension of from inspiring English sources

Playing on our apprehension of the unknown, visitors take a flight of steps underground in order to enter the main building, and emerge in a tangle of tunnels.

Do they represent our apprehension of what hostility lies behind all those blank faces in the office, at the mall, across the dinner table?

This leaves private buyers, whose numbers are growing fast, stimulated as they are by objects that constantly expand our apprehension of Chinese culture in ancient times.

It is enough to draw attention to the idea-ladenness of our apprehension of the material world, on the one hand; and, on the other, the material basis of our mental activity.

Indeed, storytelling itself remains a central concern in the author's work, in both his taste for willfully complicated narratives and his philosophical preoccupation with the ways in which subjectivity acts as a distorting prism for our apprehension of the world.

Like Ms. Munro's earlier stories that would influence several generations of writers, these pieces become meditations on how time and memory (along with regret or self-knowledge) shape our apprehension of our own lives.

A better reason, perhaps, for denying the label to our apprehensions of the given, but not to our a priori beliefs, is that the former, unlike the latter, don't involve concepts or judgement.

In AKV, Lewis introduced a category of expressive statements like "It seems as though I am seeing a red round thing" that serve to convey or express or formulate our apprehensions of the given without conceptualizing or interpreting it.

Yet, since he does call "knowledge" what we are a priori certain of, his denial of the label to our apprehensions of the given in experience may seem a bit ad hoc.

He added, "To me, most of our apprehensions of others is fear of unknown, once you know people from different faiths and understand that they are just like you, normal human beings with similar aspirations, problems, and similar day to day issues, it becomes irrelevant who and how you pray, eat or dress.

In the first place, if our conscious apprehension of the external world is mediated by our direct apprehension of the monads constituting the body and more specifically the brain as Ward contends (1911: 257 258)—why are we not aware of our neurons?