apperception

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Dewey turns to the 'Transcendental Deduction,' and follows Kant's description of the synthetic unity of apperception.

From John Dewey's logical theory by Howard, Delton Thomas

This feeling has been called by philosophers the apperception or consciousness of our own existence.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

By his development of the doctrine of apperception he took psychology forever beyond the old associationism which had ceased to be fruitful.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund

Dewey fails to make a distinction, which might have been useful to him, between Kant's unity of apperception and his productive imagination.

From John Dewey's logical theory by Howard, Delton Thomas

This is the only sure way to secure perfect apperception, and without apperception the new knowledge lies dormant, if not dead, and unrelated in the memory until it disappears, as did Bitherstone’s.

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