apperception

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

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

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

But we can meet this nowhere else than in the principle of the unity of apperception as regards all cognitions which are to belong to me.

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

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.

Each apperception center had its own elevator shaft which went through the concrete of the "dura matter" down to "Grand Central", the traffic center below The Brain.

From The Brain by Blade, Alexander