Matter, whose essence is materiality, survives all apprehensible changes; spirit, whose essence is spirituality, should do the same.
It is true that they cease to become apprehensible by the senses; but then, though removed from the ken of the senses, their existence may be affirmed by inference.
But the illicit procedure in which it indulges would be more apparent than it is to a priori theorists, if the object they imagine they have reached were visible in nature, and apprehensible by the senses.
In other words, he carries that doctrine forward to its rigidly logical consequences, and utters the last word which Hamilton and Mansel dare not utter--"Apprehensible by us there is no God.
Capable of being possessed or realized; readily apprehensible by the mind; real; substantial; evident.
Peter, preaching of the faith, continually apprehensible through the papal definitions of faith, gives to the faith of the Church the specific form under which the same incorporates itself historically in an ecclesiastical confession.
In order that it may pass from the region of the invisible into that of apprehensible reality, it needs a medium that may connect together both orders, the invisible order of the supernatural and the order of historical manifestation.
We might be disposed to regard the sacraments as this medium, because they are the instruments by which grace is conferred, in a manner apprehensiblethrough the senses.
And when I say popular I do not meanapprehensible by villagers only.
And the earlier philosophers, from Plato to Leibniz, had kept the human mind open for the thought of the universe as one idea behind all its physically apprehensible transformations.
But I find but one concise and definite formulation of the scientific theorem, in which the outline is clear, and the analogy complete, and thereby made accessible and apprehensible to the open-minded and intelligent student.
Christna and Buddha, like Jesus, taught to their disciples a "Secret Doctrine," apprehensible only to the few.
Does the object cognitively apprehensible arise from an entity or not?
So far from refusing to recognise that the subjective order of our experiences is objectively conditioned, Kant is prepared to advance to the further assertion that it is only apprehensible when so conceived.
Any time consists of parts which are themselves times, and is apprehensible only as following upon preceding times.
He is endeavouring to define the conditions under which we are enabled to recognise that bodies, external to one another in space and apprehensible only through sequent perceptions, are none the less coexistent.
And as "phenomena" are apprehensible only by the observing faculties, whatever refuses to put in an appearance in their court is nonsuited as an unreality.
To make itapprehensible by those whom it was meant to teach, nay, from its very nature as a poem, and not a treatise of abstract morality, it must set forth everything by means of sensible types and images.
He had said, "A sense which eludes all the other senses and which is not apprehensible to reason governs the world, all the rest is circumstantial, ephemeral.
