apperception

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But it is certainly true that the modern child of six or seven has so little apperception material for physical horrors that they do not take any deep hold upon him.

From Literature in the Elementary School by MacClintock, Porter Lander

He agreed with Herbart regarding the philosophy of apperception so far as it related to intellectual culture, but he painted Jo entirely out of harmony with Herbart’s psychology in relation to soul development.

From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)

But we can meet this nowhere else than in the principle of the unity of apperception as regards all cognitions which are to belong to me.

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

For this term indicates the relation of these representations to the original apperception, and also their necessary unity, even though the judgement itself is empirical, and therefore contingent, e. g.

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