apperceive
Example Sentences
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In this manner we accept the forms imposed upon us by utility, and train ourselves to apperceive their potential beauty.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George
Again, we may apperceive an object or quality from our recognition of something which in our experience has been associated, under those particular circumstances, with only that object or quality.
From Applied Psychology for Nurses by Porter, Mary F.
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
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
