Prehend Guide

Depending on whether you are preparing content for a philosophy discussion or a linguistics lesson, 1. Philosophical Definition (Process Philosophy)

: To seize or grasp at —to arrest or to perceive with dread.

: To pull back or hold back—to voice disapproval. 3. Usage in Learning & Content prehend

: It refers to the act of an "actual occasion" (a moment of experience) reaching out and incorporating aspects of the past or other entities into itself. Physical vs. Mental :

: Grasping "eternal objects" (pure potentials or ideas). Depending on whether you are preparing content for

: To grasp with —to mentally understand or include.

"Prehend" is a philosophical and linguistic term most often used in (developed by Alfred North Whitehead) to describe how an individual entity perceives or "grasps" other entities to form its own experience. Mental : : Grasping "eternal objects" (pure potentials

: Contrast "prehending" (active, formative) with passive "seeing."