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apperception

[ap-er-sep-shuhn] / ˌæp ərˈsɛp ʃən /








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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

He thus emphasizes in apperception the connexion with the self as resulting from the sum of antecedent experience.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various

This is the only sure way to secure perfect apperception, and without apperception the new knowledge lies dormant, if not dead, and unrelated in the memory until it disappears, as did Bitherstone’s.

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

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

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

There was one in every apperception center and there were hundreds more throughout The Brain, and their purpose was to replenish the liquid insulation which shielded the sensitive electric nervepaths of The Brain.

From The Brain by Alexander Blade




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