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In general, phenomena are the objects of the senses (e.g., sights and sounds) as contrasted with what is apprehended by the intellect.
This is because what is apprehended by each of these powers is different in nature.
Animal passions are determined by what is apprehended by the estimative power, and in the absence of any higher faculties that could overrule this power, inevitably produce behavior.
If non-apprehension of an object in the waking state is required to support the claim that the objects of dream experience do not really exist out there, then apprehension in the waking state must be an indicator of their existence, otherwise there would be no contrast between what is apprehended and what is not (Nyāya-Vārttika, 4.2.33).
Plutarch insists that Parmenides' distinction between what really is and things which are what they are at one time, or in one context, but not another should not be misconstrued as an abolition of the latter class of entities: "how could he have let perception and doxa remain without leaving what is apprehended by perception and doxa?" (1114E-F).
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When we see what we saw, we are reminded of what was apprehended — and let go.
Conversely, what about all the criminals who are apprehended in other countries, and then extradited here?
Ten minutes later, a suspect is apprehended.
Neda is apprehended.
Meanwhile, Joy watches as her captor is apprehended and prosecuted.
In modern philosophy the word is sometimes used for what is immediately apprehended by the senses before any judgment is made; it has, however, never become a technical term, many philosophers preferring sense-datum or some such expression though they commonly accept the cognate forms phenomenalism and phenomenology.
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