apperceive
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A. Present Knowledge.—Since the mind can apperceive only that for which it is prepared through former experience, the interpretation of the same presentations will be likely to differ greatly in different individuals.
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 Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
He can not apperceive it so as to permit him to gratify my claim; but there is enough appeal in the claim to induce him to write a whole article in justification of his refusal.
From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William
To apperceive, for instance, the rules of government and agreement in grammar will have a very limited value if the student is not able to give expression to these in his own conversation.
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
The object is unideal, that is, the novel, external element is inharmonious with the revived and internal element by suggesting which the object has been apperceived.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George
C. Adds to Clearness of Knowledge.—Not only does expression test the clearness of the apperceived new knowledge, but at the same time it gives the knowledge greater clearness.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
It is, moreover, a condition of the kind of expression possible, and often determines the manner in which the object suggested shall be apperceived.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George
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 Everts, Katherine Jewell
When Johnny is as sure it is his father as if he could see his face close beside him he has apperceived him.
From Applied Psychology for Nurses by Porter, Mary F.
He has misunderstood because his mind was not prepared by making the proper apperceiving ideas explicit.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
From their speech, and from their peculiar manner of apperceiving things and explaining them, I discerned clearly that they were from another earth; for they differed altogether from the spirits of our solar system.
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 Swedenborg, Emanuel
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
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
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 Richardson, Dorothy
