apperception
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It is true that we cannot conceive the universe otherwise than as infinite in time and space, because both time and space are but human modes of apperception.
From Jewish Theology by Kohler, Kaufmann
Nine-tenths of every picture is the product, not of perception, but of apperception.
From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)
It follows naturally from the principle of apperception: the interpretation of the unknown in terms of the known; the extension of accumulated experience to the interpretation of new experiences.
From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.
For our delicate machinery of apperception there is no longer right or wrong; vice and virtue are the acid and alkali of existence.
From Unicorns by Huneker, James
No one dreams, of course, that the great synthetic apperception, for which our modern time seems ripe, will come through the delivery of some hundred addresses, or the discussions of some hundred audiences.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
Vocabulary lists containing apperception
Flowers for Algernon
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cept, capt, ceive (take, hold, seize)
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capt, cept, ceive, List 3
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