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apperception

[ap-er-sep-shuhn] / ˌæp ərˈsɛp ʃən /








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He agreed with Herbart regarding the philosophy of apperception so far as it related to intellectual culture, but he painted Jo entirely out of harmony with Herbart’s psychology in relation to soul development.

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

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 Benjamin M. Anderson

This was unexpected; it couldn't be that thoughts were still forming as flames devoured the cortex matter of apperception in the hemispheres....

From The Brain by Alexander Blade

Dewey fails to make a distinction, which might have been useful to him, between Kant's unity of apperception and his productive imagination.

From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard

But it is certainly true that the modern child of six or seven has so little apperception material for physical horrors that they do not take any deep hold upon him.

From Literature in the Elementary School by Porter Lander MacClintock




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