apperceive
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Certain signs of passion are all that we ever apperceive externally.
From Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Cloudesley Shovell Henry Brereton
People apperceive, think, and feel as these three teach them, and finally it becomes second nature to follow this line of least resistance, and to seek intellectual conformity.
From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Hans Gustav Adolf Gross
Similarly, the time-honored phenomenon of diabolical possession is on the point of being admitted by the scientist as a fact, now that he has the name of "hystero-demonopathy" by which to apperceive it.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
Education is especially valuable, in fact, in that it so adds to the experience of the child that he may more fully apperceive his surroundings.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
He can not apperceive it so as to permit him to gratify my claim; but there is enough appeal in the claim to induce him to write a whole article in justification of his refusal.
From Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James
The way in which the human figure, for instance, is depicted, is an indication of the way in which it is apperceived.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
In what opposite ways must the child's parents have apperceived the burning house and the engine respectively!
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James
Their speech, being of many together, was apperceived as undulatory, and, what was remarkable, it glided towards my left eye, although they were to the right.
From Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There by Emanuel Swedenborg
The choice between them would be an arbitrary one, determined by personal bias, for the object being indeterminate, its elements can be apperceived as forming all kinds of unities.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
It may include facts which have fallen within the sensory field, but which have never been supraliminally "apperceived" or cognised in any way.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
Further, the apperceiving ideas become more interesting to the pupil, when he finds that he can use them in the conquest of new fields.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
This next and highest sphere is action from the general or abstract thoughts which we have been able to work up by the apperceiving activity of the mind.
From The Story of the Mind by James Mark Baldwin
But, if he goes to a house where there are round tables and still calls them tables, his apperceiving notion 'table' acquires immediately a wider inward content.
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James
The choices which determine the universe of maturity are often made in youth; then the foundations are laid of that apperceiving mass which is to condition all the man's contacts with reality.
From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Evelyn Underhill
That was his mode of apperceiving the spectacle.
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James
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