perceiving

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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 McMurry, Charles Alexander

In the interaction between the old and new the latter then become the apperceiving forces.

From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by McMurry, Charles Alexander

This next and highest sphere is action from the general or abstract thoughts which we have been able to work up by the apperceiving activity of the mind.

From The Story of the Mind by Baldwin, James Mark

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 McMurry, Charles Alexander

In an act of memory, therefore, the new presentation, like all new presentations, must be interpreted in terms of past experience, or by an apperceiving act of attention.

From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education