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| - | In [[psychology]], '''apprehension''' (Lat. ''ad'', "to"; ''prehendere'', "to seize") is a term applied to a [[mental model|model]] of [[consciousness]] in which nothing is affirmed or denied of the object in question, but the [[mind]] is merely aware of ("seizes") it. | ||
| - | "Judgment" (says Reid, ed. Hamilton, i. p. 414) "is an act of the mind, specifically different from simple apprehension or the bare conception of a thing". "Simple apprehension or conception can neither be true nor false." This distinction provides for the large class of [[mental act]]s in which we are simply aware of, or "take in" a number of familiar objects, about which we in general make no judgment, unless our attention is suddenly called by a new feature. Or again, two alternatives may be apprehended without any resultant judgment as to their respective merits. | + | '''Peter Thomas Geach''' (29 March 1916 – 21 December 2013) was a [[British philosopher]] and [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] of [[Logic]] at the [[University of Leeds]]. His areas of interest were the [[history of philosophy]], [[philosophical logic]], [[metaethics]], and the theory of [[Identity (philosophy)|identity]]. |
| + | ==Selected publications== | ||
| + | * (edited, with Max Black) ''Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege'', 1952/1960/1966 | ||
| + | * "Good and Evil," ''Analysis'' (1956) | ||
| + | * ''[[Mental Acts: Their Content and Their Objects]]'', 1957/1997 | ||
| + | * ''Three Philosophers: Aristotle; Aquinas; Frege'' (with G.E.M. Anscombe), 1961 | ||
| + | * ''Reference and Generality: An Examination of Some Medieval and Modern Theories'', 1962 | ||
| + | * [http://www.mediafire.com/?r7tuym1gp06dyji ''History of the corruptions of logic''], inaugural lecture, University of Leeds, 1968 | ||
| + | * ''God and the Soul'', 1969/2001 | ||
| + | * ''Logic Matters'', 1972 | ||
| + | * ''Reason and Argument'', 1976 | ||
| + | * "Saying and Showing in Frege and Wittgenstein," ''Acta Philosophica Fennica'' 28 (1976): 54–70 | ||
| + | * ''Truth, Love, and Immortality: An Introduction to McTaggart's Philosophy'', 1979 | ||
| + | * (edited) ''Wittgenstein's Lectures on Philosophical Psychology, 1946–47: Notes by P.T. Geach, K.J. Shah, and A.C. Jackson'', 1989 | ||
| + | * ''Logic and Ethics'' (edited by Jacek Holowka), 1990 | ||
| + | * ''Truth and Hope: The Furst Franz Josef und Furstin Gina Lectures Delivered at the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein, 1998'' (ISBN 0-268-04215-2) | ||
| - | Similarly, [[George Stout|G.F. Stout]] stated that while we have a very vivid idea of a [[fictional character|character]] or an incident in a work of [[fiction]], we can hardly be said in any real sense to have any [[belief]] or to make any judgment as to its [[existence]] or [[truth]]. With this mental state may be compared the purely [[aesthetics|aesthetic]] [[contemplation]] of [[music]], wherein apart from, say, a false [[note]], the [[wikt:faculty|faculty]] of judgment is for the time inoperative. To these examples may be added the fact that one can fully understand an argument in all its bearings, without in any way judging its [[validity]]. Without going into the question fully, it may be pointed out that the distinction between judgment and apprehension is relative. In every kind of thought, there is judgment of some sort in a greater or less degree of prominence. | + | ==See also== |
| - | + | * [[Omnipotence paradox#Types of omnipotence|Omnipotence levels]] | |
| - | Judgment and [[thought]] are in fact [[psychologically]] distinguishable merely as different, though [[correlation|correlative]], activities of consciousness. Professor Stout further investigates the phenomena of apprehension, and comes to the conclusion that "it is possible to distinguish and identify a whole without apprehending any of its [[constituent (linguistics)|constituent]] details." On the other hand, there is an expectation that such details will, as it were, emerge into consciousness. Hence, he describes such apprehension as "[[implication (pragmatics)|implicit]]", and insofar as the implicit apprehension determines the order of such emergence, he describes it as "[[schematic]]". | + | |
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| - | A good example of this process is the use of [[formula]]e in calculations; ordinarily the formula is used without question; if attention is fixed upon it, the steps by which it is shown to be [[universalism|universally]] applicable emerge, and the "schema " is complete in detail. With this result may be compared [[Kant]]'s theory of apprehension as a synthetic act (the "synthesis of apprehension") by which the sensory elements of a [[perception]] are subjected to the formal conditions of [[time]] and [[space]]. | + | |
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| - | ==References== | + | |
| - | * G.F. Stout, ''Analytic Psychology'' (London, 1896) | + | |
| - | * F. Brentano, ''Psychologie'' (bk. ii. ch. vii.) | + | |
| - | * F. Brentano, ''Vom Ursprung sittlicher Erkenntnis'' | + | |
| - | * B. Titchener, ''Outlines of Psychology'' (New York, 1902); and | + | |
| - | * B. Titchener, ''Text-books of psychology''. | + | |
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Peter Thomas Geach (29 March 1916 – 21 December 2013) was a British philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Logic at the University of Leeds. His areas of interest were the history of philosophy, philosophical logic, metaethics, and the theory of identity.
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Selected publications
- (edited, with Max Black) Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege, 1952/1960/1966
- "Good and Evil," Analysis (1956)
- Mental Acts: Their Content and Their Objects, 1957/1997
- Three Philosophers: Aristotle; Aquinas; Frege (with G.E.M. Anscombe), 1961
- Reference and Generality: An Examination of Some Medieval and Modern Theories, 1962
- History of the corruptions of logic, inaugural lecture, University of Leeds, 1968
- God and the Soul, 1969/2001
- Logic Matters, 1972
- Reason and Argument, 1976
- "Saying and Showing in Frege and Wittgenstein," Acta Philosophica Fennica 28 (1976): 54–70
- Truth, Love, and Immortality: An Introduction to McTaggart's Philosophy, 1979
- (edited) Wittgenstein's Lectures on Philosophical Psychology, 1946–47: Notes by P.T. Geach, K.J. Shah, and A.C. Jackson, 1989
- Logic and Ethics (edited by Jacek Holowka), 1990
- Truth and Hope: The Furst Franz Josef und Furstin Gina Lectures Delivered at the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein, 1998 (ISBN 0-268-04215-2)
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