apperceive
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He can not apperceive it so as to permit him to gratify my claim; but there is enough appeal in the claim to induce him to write a whole article in justification of his refusal.
From Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James
Similarly, the time-honored phenomenon of diabolical possession is on the point of being admitted by the scientist as a fact, now that he has the name of "hystero-demonopathy" by which to apperceive it.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
One may perceive a new object without understanding it, but to apperceive it is to interpret its meaning by the aid of similar familiar notions.
From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by Charles Alexander McMurry
I cannot but think that to apperceive your pupil as a little sensitive, impulsive, associative, and reactive organism, partly fated and partly free, will lead to a better intelligence of all his ways.
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James
Then the queen departed into her chamber so that no man should apperceive her great sorrows.
From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart; Thomas Malory; Raphael Holinshed
It may include facts which have fallen within the sensory field, but which have never been supraliminally "apperceived" or cognised in any way.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
C. Adds to Clearness of Knowledge.—Not only does expression test the clearness of the apperceived new knowledge, but at the same time it gives the knowledge greater clearness.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
There was a certain spirit above my head who spoke with me, and from the tone of his voice he was apperceived to be as it were in a state of sleep.
From Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There by Emanuel Swedenborg
In what opposite ways must the child's parents have apperceived the burning house and the engine respectively!
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James
The object is unideal, that is, the novel, external element is inharmonious with the revived and internal element by suggesting which the object has been apperceived.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
In the presence of these they now make manifest their apperceiving power.
From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by Charles Alexander McMurry
From their speech, and from their peculiar manner of apperceiving things and explaining them, I discerned clearly that they were from another earth; for they differed altogether from the spirits of our solar system.
From Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There by Emanuel Swedenborg
With Herbart, the ideas gained through experience are the apperceiving power in interpreting new things.
From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by Charles Alexander McMurry
Time will be saved by having the apperceiving ideas ready and active.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
As time goes on, our vocabulary becomes thus ever more and more voluminous, having to keep up with the ever-growing multitude of our stock of apperceiving ideas.
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James
