apperception
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It follows naturally from the principle of apperception: the interpretation of the unknown in terms of the known; the extension of accumulated experience to the interpretation of new experiences.
From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.
He agreed with Herbart regarding the philosophy of apperception so far as it related to intellectual culture, but he painted Jo entirely out of harmony with Herbart’s psychology in relation to soul development.
From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)
Dewey fails to make a distinction, which might have been useful to him, between Kant's unity of apperception and his productive imagination.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Howard, Delton Thomas
Under the first head, it means the growth of a central unity of apperception.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Kant then proceeds to introduce what he evidently considers the keystone of his system, viz. 'transcendental apperception.'
From Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Prichard, Harold Arthur
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Flowers for Algernon
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