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: Understanding how ideas fit together in a structured pattern to avoid miscomprehension.

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

: To seize or grasp at —to arrest or to perceive with dread. : Understanding how ideas fit together in a

: To grasp with —to mentally understand or include. prehend

"Prehend" comes from the Latin prehendere (to seize or grasp), which is the ancestor of more common English words:

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