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

Somehow "apperceptive masses" are stirred that will assist in getting hold of the new subject.

From How We Think by Dewey, John

Perfect freedom can not be developed in a soul filled with the apperceptive experiences of tyranny.

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

The beauty of landscape, the forms of religion and science, the types of human nature itself, are due to this apperceptive gift.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George

All of which simply means that his channels of reaction are so formed already that no instruction can get sufficient lodgment in him to bring about any modification of his "apperceptive systems."

From The Story of the Mind by Baldwin, James Mark