apperception

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The whole intelligent life of man is, consciously or unconsciously, a process of apperception, inasmuch as every act of attention involves the appercipient process.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various

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

Fleeing the loud-rolling world with her new apperception, she sped Far to the heart of the moon, where her father, the moon-god, received her.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Potter, Margaret Horton

Dewey fails to make a distinction, which might have been useful to him, between Kant's unity of apperception and his productive imagination.

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

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