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apperceive

[ap-er-seev] / ˌæp ərˈsiv /






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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

Similarly, the time-honored phenomenon of diabolical possession is on the point of being admitted by the scientist as a fact, now that he has the name of "hystero-demonopathy" by which to apperceive it.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James

They said they worshipped some angel, who appears to them as a Divine man, for he is resplendent with light; and that he instructs them and enables them to apperceive what they ought to do.

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

I cannot but think that to apperceive your pupil as a little sensitive, impulsive, associative, and reactive organism, partly fated and partly free, will lead to a better intelligence of all his ways.

From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James

By bringing his old knowledge to bear on such a sentence as "The men who brought it returned at once"; the pupil may be asked first to apperceive the subordinate clause, who brought it.

From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education

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

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

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

The way in which the human figure, for instance, is depicted, is an indication of the way in which it is apperceived.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana

There was a certain spirit above my head who spoke with me, and from the tone of his voice he was apperceived to be as it were in a state of sleep.

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

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

The imagination works in conjunction with the apperceiving faculty and constructs real pictures.

From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by Charles Alexander McMurry

As time goes on, our vocabulary becomes thus ever more and more voluminous, having to keep up with the ever-growing multitude of our stock of apperceiving ideas.

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 an act of memory, therefore, the new presentation, like all new presentations, must be interpreted in terms of past experience, or by an apperceiving act of attention.

From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education




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