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Katalepsis ((ギリシア語:κατάληψις), "grasping") in Stoic philosophy, meant comprehension.〔Charles Porterfield Krauth, William Fleming, Henry Calderwood, (1878), ''A vocabulary of the philosophical sciences'', page 589〕 It is a term that originally refers to the Stoic philosophers and was to them an important premise regarding one's state of mind as it relates to grasping fundamental philosophical concepts. ==Stoicism== According to the Stoics, the mind is constantly being bombarded with impressions (''phantasiai''). (An impression arising from the mind was called a ''phantasma''.)〔 VII.49 〕 Some of these impressions are true and some false. Impressions are true when they are truly affirmed, false if they are wrongly affirmed, such as when one believes an oar dipped in the water to be broken because it appears so.〔George Henry Lewes, (1880), The history of philosophy: from Thales to Comte, page 360〕 When Orestes, in his madness, mistook Electra for a Fury, he had an impression both true and false: true inasmuch as he saw something, viz., Electra; false, inasmuch as Electra was not a Fury.〔 The Stoics said that one ought not to give credit to everything which is perceived, but only to those perceptions which contain some special mark of those things which appeared.〔Thomas Woodhouse Levin, (1871), ''Six lectures introductory to the philosophical writings of Cicero'', page 71〕 Such a perception then was called a ''kataleptic phantasia'' ((ギリシア語:φαντασία καταληπτική)), or comprehensible perception.〔 The ''kataleptic phantasia'' is that which is impressed by an object which exists, which is a copy of that object and can be produced by no other object.〔 Cicero relates that Zeno would illustrate katalepsis as follows:
Katalepsis was the main bone of contention between the Stoics and Academic Skeptics of Plato's Academy, during the Hellenistic period.〔 The Greek Skeptics (who chose the Stoics as their natural philosophical opposites) debated much of what the Stoics eschewed regarding the human mind and one's methods of understanding greater meanings.〔See (''Ancient Greek Skepticism'' ) at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy for information about katalepsis and the Skeptics attack on it.〕 To the Skeptics, all perceptions were acataleptic, i.e. bore no conformity to the objects perceived, or, if they did bear any conformity, it could never be known.〔George Henry Lewes, (1863), ''The biographical history of philosophy'', Volume 1, page 297〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Katalepsis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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