apperceive
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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
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
If there is only one natural law, and we see it only in seemingly unrelated facets because of our ignorance, because we cannot apperceive the whole, then this, too, is no more than another facet.
From Eight Keys to Eden by Mark Clifton
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 Charles Alexander McMurry
On the contrary, they apperceive every experience and assign it to its place.
From Meaning of Truth by William James
He again came to me in mean raiment, and again said that he had an ardent desire to enter heaven, and that he now apperceived that he was such that he could go there.
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
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 Katherine Jewell Everts
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 William James
I apperceived that this was their manner of accosting all who come to them.
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
Hence they apperceived that I was in the truth, and I was admitted to converse with them.
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
Time will be saved by having the apperceiving ideas ready and active.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
But, if he goes to a house where there are round tables and still calls them tables, his apperceiving notion 'table' acquires immediately a wider inward content.
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James
That was his mode of apperceiving the spectacle.
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James
In general, the notes which emphasize the difficulty of apperceiving the two pictures as flat and deep together accompany choices where the tunnel is put uniformly farther out, or symmetrically.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg
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
