apperception

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There was one in every apperception center and there were hundreds more throughout The Brain, and their purpose was to replenish the liquid insulation which shielded the sensitive electric nervepaths of The Brain.

From The Brain by Blade, Alexander

"This question is for the real Haslop: Have you ever been put through a Rorschach, thematic apperception or free association test?"

From Problem on Balak by Aycock, Roger D.

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

Under the first head, it means the growth of a central unity of apperception.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Synthetical unity of the manifold of perceptions, as given a priori, is therefore the ground of the identity of apperception itself, which precedes a priori all my determinate thinking.

From Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Prichard, Harold Arthur