apperceive

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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

Evidently the ideal has been formed by the habit of perception; it is, in a rough way, that average form which we expect and most readily apperceive.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George

The arrangement difficult to apperceive as a whole.

From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Münsterberg, Hugo

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

Certain signs of passion are all that we ever apperceive externally.

From Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Brereton, Cloudesley Shovell Henry