apperceive
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One may perceive a new object without understanding it, but to apperceive it is to interpret its meaning by the aid of similar familiar notions.
From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by McMurry, Charles Alexander
In this manner we accept the forms imposed upon us by utility, and train ourselves to apperceive their potential beauty.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George
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
They are almost certain, therefore, to apperceive the new idea; that is, to conquer and subdue it, to make it tributary to their power.
From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by McMurry, Charles Alexander
Certain it is that the adolescent power to apperceive and appreciate never so far outstrips his power to produce or reproduce as about midway in the teens.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley
It is when you have fully apperceived the object that your conception is complete.
From Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation by Everts, Katherine Jewell
When Johnny is as sure it is his father as if he could see his face close beside him he has apperceived him.
From Applied Psychology for Nurses by Porter, Mary F.
They also apperceived from my speech that I had come from a great distance.
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 Swedenborg, Emanuel
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 James, William
C. Adds to Clearness of Knowledge.—Not only does expression test the clearness of the apperceived new knowledge, but at the same time it gives the knowledge greater clearness.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
His experience and its interpretation are, then, inevitably conditioned by this apperceiving mass.
From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Underhill, Evelyn
With Herbart, the ideas gained through experience are the apperceiving power in interpreting new things.
From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by McMurry, Charles Alexander
In the interaction between the old and new the latter then become the apperceiving forces.
From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by McMurry, Charles Alexander
It is generally agreed that there are certain "tricks" which make for mental efficiency, consisting of methods of apperceiving facts, methods of review, devices for arranging work.
From How to Use Your Mind A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised Study by Kitson, Harry D.
He has misunderstood because his mind was not prepared by making the proper apperceiving ideas explicit.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
