apperceive

Example Sentences

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Education is especially valuable, in fact, in that it so adds to the experience of the child that he may more fully apperceive his surroundings.

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

On the contrary, they apperceive every experience and assign it to its place.

From Meaning of Truth by James, William

From my perception, then, of hoof or sound I apperceive cow.

From Applied Psychology for Nurses by Porter, Mary F.

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 Clifton, Mark

They stated the view with a rash emphasis, until one is forced to ask whether a mind which is originally nothing at all, can absorb, or as psychologists say, "apperceive" anything whatever.

From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Brailsford, Henry Noel