: To seize or grasp at —to arrest or to perceive with dread.
In educational contexts, the act of "prehending" content involves: prehend
: Grasping other actual entities in the world. : To seize or grasp at —to arrest
: Understanding how ideas fit together in a structured pattern to avoid miscomprehension. formative) with passive "seeing."
: Discuss how we "prehend" our own past to make decisions in the present.
"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.
: Contrast "prehending" (active, formative) with passive "seeing."