▨ grasp

"It is not an accident that we talk about ‘grasping’ what someone is saying. The metaphor of grasp has its roots deep in the way we talk about thinking in most languages (e.g. the various Romance derivatives of Latin com-prehendere, and cognates of be-greifen in Germanic languages).
[...] It is also through grasping things that we grant things certainty (knowledge) and fixity:" p. 112f