Sentence examples for we apprehend that from inspiring English sources

If we apprehend trouble of these dimensions - we are not dealing with small matters - if we apprehend that the opening phases of a third world war might start or turn upon an attack by Israel on anyone, why did we not make it quite clear to Israel?

We apprehend that 2+2 = 4 by apprehending that 2+2 matches makes 4 matches and that 2+2 balls makes 4 balls, and so on.

We apprehend that it is prima facie right to keep promises by apprehending that it is prima facie right to fulfill this or that particular promise.

Authorities have yet to apprehend that hacker.

Only by committing myself to the truth was I able to apprehend that, in reality, criticism of Israel was never a serious concern.

For me, apprehending that aspect of the Christian narrative was a transporting experience, an oceanic experience.

When he was apprehended, that was a surprise to me because I thought the FBI had given him a free pass and he would never be apprehended.

It is by a process of reflection on this proposition that we come to apprehend that we have this responsibility.

The core components of the latter view are, first, that perception and knowledge are primitive forms of apprehension and, second, that what we apprehend are ordinary elements of our environments that are independent of our apprehending them.

Kant raises the same objection against dogmatic rationalism, championed by Christian Wolff and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, which holds that there are real moral truths that we apprehend by rational intuition, and independently of our conceptions of the person (Kant G 4, 443; Rawls 2000, 50, 228).

Now it is unclear why Frege thought that he could answer the question posed here by saying that we apprehend numbers as the extensions of concepts.