Meanings
adjectiveprehensive (comparative more prehensive, superlative most prehensive)
comparative more prehensive · superlative most prehensive
- human sciencesOf or relating to Alfred North Whitehead's concept of prehension.
In Faraday's vision of the interpenetrability of matter, or in Whitehead's vision of the prehensive unification of space-time, is expressed the Unitive state of the mystic.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 82
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