apperception

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By his development of the doctrine of apperception he took psychology forever beyond the old associationism which had ceased to be fruitful.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund

It is the “transcendental unity of consciousness” of Kant—his synthetic unity of apperception.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

It is, in the phrase of Leibniz, perception: but not apperception.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

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