apperceptive

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My apperceptive mass goes back 50 years when I was the bird-dog for Jack Kaplan, then worth over $100 million and denoted as a big boodle for a sole operator.

From Forbes • Mar. 30, 2015

Dickens emphasized the fact that the lack of apperceptive centres of an improper kind is a great advantage.

From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)

The second story in each group makes an appeal to the child's reasoning powers; having secured his attention through the apperceptive story, the story-teller now takes the child a-field, mentally, and secures his voluntary attention.

From Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs by Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin

All of which simply means that his channels of reaction are so formed already that no instruction can get sufficient lodgment in him to bring about any modification of his "apperceptive systems."

From The Story of the Mind by Baldwin, James Mark

We can know things only in terms of our "apperceptive mass," but that does not mean that things exist only by virtue of our apperceptive mass.

From Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive by Anderson, Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester)