apperception

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No one dreams, of course, that the great synthetic apperception, for which our modern time seems ripe, will come through the delivery of some hundred addresses, or the discussions of some hundred audiences.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various

But we can meet this nowhere else than in the principle of the unity of apperception as regards all cognitions which are to belong to me.

From Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Prichard, Harold Arthur

This feeling has been called by philosophers the apperception or consciousness of our own existence.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

This is impossible for the modern thinker, who has learned from Kant to regard time and space, not as external realities, but as human modes of apperception of objects.

From Jewish Theology by Kohler, Kaufmann

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.