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apperception

[ap-er-sep-shuhn] / ˌæp ərˈsɛp ʃən /








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There was one in every apperception center and there were hundreds more throughout The Brain, and their purpose was to replenish the liquid insulation which shielded the sensitive electric nervepaths of The Brain.

From The Brain by Blade, Alexander

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

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

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

It is, in the phrase of Leibniz, perception: but not apperception.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich




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