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

We can know things only in terms of our "apperceptive mass," but that does not mean that things exist only by virtue of our apperceptive mass.

From Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive by Anderson, Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester)

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

Thus the critical analysis must give a logical presentation of the apperceptive and associative processes of revival.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various

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