apperception

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This pure original unchangeable consciousness I shall call transcendental apperception.

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

This feeling has been called by philosophers the apperception or consciousness of our own existence.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

The locale of The Brain's self-expression is the "pineal gland" supposed to be seat of extrasensory apperception in the human brain.

From The Brain by Blade, Alexander

Fleeing the loud-rolling world with her new apperception, she sped Far to the heart of the moon, where her father, the moon-god, received her.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Potter, Margaret Horton

This is the only sure way to secure perfect apperception, and without apperception the new knowledge lies dormant, if not dead, and unrelated in the memory until it disappears, as did Bitherstone’s.

From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)