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

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

But it is certainly true that the modern child of six or seven has so little apperception material for physical horrors that they do not take any deep hold upon him.

From Literature in the Elementary School by MacClintock, Porter Lander

He agreed with Herbart regarding the philosophy of apperception so far as it related to intellectual culture, but he painted Jo entirely out of harmony with Herbart’s psychology in relation to soul development.

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

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