apperceive
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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
They said they worshipped some angel, who appears to them as a Divine man, for he is resplendent with light; and that he instructs them and enables them to apperceive what they ought to do.
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
They are almost certain, therefore, to apperceive the new idea; that is, to conquer and subdue it, to make it tributary to their power.
From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by Charles Alexander McMurry
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
If there is only one natural law, and we see it only in seemingly unrelated facets because of our ignorance, because we cannot apperceive the whole, then this, too, is no more than another facet.
From Eight Keys to Eden by Mark Clifton
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
Thus, for example, newly formed representations are apperceived by the existing older ones, but the highest apperceiver is not, in turn, itself apperceived.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
The choice between them would be an arbitrary one, determined by personal bias, for the object being indeterminate, its elements can be apperceived as forming all kinds of unities.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
Hence they apperceived that I was in the truth, and I was admitted to converse with them.
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
It is, moreover, a condition of the kind of expression possible, and often determines the manner in which the object suggested shall be apperceived.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
It is generally agreed that there are certain "tricks" which make for mental efficiency, consisting of methods of apperceiving facts, methods of review, devices for arranging work.
From How to Use Your Mind A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised Study by Harry D. Kitson
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
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
He has misunderstood because his mind was not prepared by making the proper apperceiving ideas explicit.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
Further, the apperceiving ideas become more interesting to the pupil, when he finds that he can use them in the conquest of new fields.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
