apperceive
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On the contrary, they apperceive every experience and assign it to its place.
From Meaning of Truth by William James
It was given me also to apperceive the character of their internal respiration.
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
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 George Santayana
Good instruction, then, involves first putting the child into a proper frame of mind to apperceive the new knowledge, and hence this becomes a corner-stone of all good teaching method.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
Thus, so long as the child is able to apperceive only the three sides and three angles of a triangle, his idea of triangle includes a synthesis of these.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
The sound of the single wave is felt, but not distinguished, is perceived, but not apperceived.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
A single, concrete, objective Fact, transcending yet informing his universe, compels his adoration, and is apperceived by him in three main ways.
From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Evelyn Underhill
It is sufficient for the type of individual who malingers to merely say the word, and the most fantastic creation of his fancy immediately becomes a reality and is apperceived by him as such.
From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck
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 Emanuel Swedenborg
Thus the columns of a temple represent upward movement, and are apperceived as striving upwards so as to resist the downward pressure of the entablature.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
This influence is shown even in the commonplace instances, where the professional or the amateur is betrayed by the manner of apperceiving one and the same object.
From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Smith Ely Jelliffe
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
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 Charles Alexander McMurry
That they did not have sufficient "apperceiving basis" I cannot believe, for they were generally bright and clever.
From The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself by Dorothy Richardson
Some of the apperceiving ideas are recent acquisitions of our own, but most of them are common-sense traditions of the race.
From Meaning of Truth by William James
