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
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 James Mark Baldwin
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 George Santayana
The second story in each group makes an appeal to the child's reasoning powers; having secured his attention through the apperceptive story, the story-teller now takes the child a-field, mentally, and secures his voluntary attention.
From Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Organized nature the source of apperceptive forms; example of sculpture.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
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