apperception

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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

Nine-tenths of every picture is the product, not of perception, but of apperception.

From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)

Kant then proceeds to introduce what he evidently considers the keystone of his system, viz. 'transcendental apperception.'

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

It is the “transcendental unity of consciousness” of Kant—his synthetic unity of apperception.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

But as Kant's unity of apperception became for Green merely a symbol of the world's inherent intelligibility, the latter did not regard it as an actual process of synthesis.

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