Prehend Now

: Connecting new information to a "learning net" or schema already stored in the mind.

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

: This is the "feeling" of the world that allows the past to live within the present. 2. Linguistic Root & Comparison prehend

In the work of Alfred North Whitehead, specifically in Process and Reality , "prehend" is the verb for .

: 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 : : Connecting new information to a "learning net"

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

"Prehend" comes from the Latin prehendere (to seize or grasp), which is the ancestor of more common English words: Usage in Learning & Content : This is

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