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 highest work of schools, colleges, and universities is to fill the lives of men and women with the apperceptive centres of the community ideal.

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

This test, because it throws such interesting light on the maturity of the child’s apperceptive processes, is one of the most valuable of all.

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

Bleak House discusses the contents of children’s minds and the need of early experiences to form apperceptive centres of feeling and thought in a comprehensive and suggestive manner.

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