apperceptive
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My apperceptive mass goes back 50 years when I was the bird-dog for Jack Kaplan, then worth over $100 million and denoted as a big boodle for a sole operator.
From Forbes ● Mar. 30, 2015
The percipient mind is no mere recipiency or susceptibility with its forms of time and space: it is spontaneously active, it is the source of categories, or is an apperceptive power,—an understanding.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Organized nature the source of apperceptive forms; example of sculpture.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George
Somehow "apperceptive masses" are stirred that will assist in getting hold of the new subject.
From How We Think by Dewey, John
The apperceptive expectancy, practically nil in the reading of nonsense material, must be decidedly deficient in all poor reading.
From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
