apperception

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The shortest way to understand the Stoic principle is through the psychological doctrine of apperception.

From The Five Great Philosophies of Life by Hyde, William De Witt

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)

This is impossible for the modern thinker, who has learned from Kant to regard time and space, not as external realities, but as human modes of apperception of objects.

From Jewish Theology by Kohler, Kaufmann

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

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