apperceptive
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My apperceptive mass goes back 50 years when I was the bird-dog for Jack Kaplan, then worth over $100 million and denoted as a big boodle for a sole operator.
From Forbes ● Mar. 30, 2015
The mechanical organization of external nature is thus the source of apperceptive forms in the mind.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George
The highest work of schools, colleges, and universities is to fill the lives of men and women with the apperceptive centres of the community ideal.
From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)
The apperceptive expectancy, practically nil in the reading of nonsense material, must be decidedly deficient in all poor reading.
From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
Now the "apperceptive basis" of material furnished by teacher and text-book should be found, as far as possible, in what the learner has derived from more direct forms of his own experience.
From How We Think by Dewey, John
