apperception

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But it is certainly true that the modern child of six or seven has so little apperception material for physical horrors that they do not take any deep hold upon him.

From Literature in the Elementary School by MacClintock, Porter Lander

For our delicate machinery of apperception there is no longer right or wrong; vice and virtue are the acid and alkali of existence.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James

For this term indicates the relation of these representations to the original apperception, and also their necessary unity, even though the judgement itself is empirical, and therefore contingent, e. g.

From Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Prichard, Harold Arthur

This was unexpected; it couldn't be that thoughts were still forming as flames devoured the cortex matter of apperception in the hemispheres....

From The Brain by Blade, Alexander

The shortest way to understand the Stoic principle is through the psychological doctrine of apperception.

From The Five Great Philosophies of Life by Hyde, William De Witt