apperception

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For this term indicates the relation of these representations to the original apperception, and also their necessary unity, even though the judgement itself is empirical, and therefore contingent, e. g.

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

The whole intelligent life of man is, consciously or unconsciously, a process of apperception, inasmuch as every act of attention involves the appercipient process.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various

But as Kant's unity of apperception became for Green merely a symbol of the world's inherent intelligibility, the latter did not regard it as an actual process of synthesis.

From John Dewey's logical theory by Howard, Delton Thomas

Kant then proceeds to introduce what he evidently considers the keystone of his system, viz. 'transcendental apperception.'

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

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