apperception

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For our delicate machinery of apperception there is no longer right or wrong; vice and virtue are the acid and alkali of existence.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James

Nine-tenths of every picture is the product, not of perception, but of apperception.

From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)

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

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

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