Apprehension

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The philosophical term of apprehension is derived from the Latin apprehendere (to grasp or to grasp) and means the spiritual development and awareness of an appearance. Apprehension is thus the conceptual understanding of a perception. This term was often used from Thomas Aquinas to Kant .

Thomas Aquinas

According to Thomas Aquinas, apprehension is the first stage of knowledge . It is the beginning of the transition from potency (possibility) to act (to the real). He distinguished four forms of apprehension:

  1. apprehensio simplex (absoluta), the simple and immediate apprehension
  2. apprehensio actuales (inquisitiva), the investigative apprehension
  3. apprehensio sensualis (intellectus possibilis), the apprehension of the possibilities
  4. apprehensio intellectus (agens), the acting apprehension

Immanuel Kant

According to Immanuel Kant, there is only one form of apprehension:

  • This comes about through a multitude of interactions. It, the apprehension, according to Kant, is the "act performed directly on the perceptions" of the imagination ( KrV A 120). According to Kant, it is a preliminary product of the imagination through which the disordered phenomena “come into the mind” (KrV A 122). The imagination is supposed to bring the multitude of sensory impressions (“the manifold of appearances”) into an image, into an “empirical perception” (KrV B 160), and so that this can happen, the imagination that creates a mentally visual image must first apprehend . The apprehension of the manifold in the appearance of a house is successive.
  • Kant: "There is an active ability in us to synthesize this manifold, which we call imagination, and whose action directly performed on perceptions I call apprehension ." (KrV, Chapter: Deduction of the pure understanding concepts)
  • Kant: “The imagination is supposed to bring the manifold of perception into one picture ; beforehand she has to absorb the impressions into her activity, ie apprehend. "(Ibid.)

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