apperceptive

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My apperceptive mass goes back 50 years when I was the bird-dog for Jack Kaplan, then worth over $100 million and denoted as a big boodle for a sole operator.

From Forbes • Mar. 30, 2015

Dickens emphasized the fact that the lack of apperceptive centres of an improper kind is a great advantage.

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

The beauty of landscape, the forms of religion and science, the types of human nature itself, are due to this apperceptive gift.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George

If you can do this you will arrive at an understanding of apperceptive background through its elimination.

From Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation by Everts, Katherine Jewell

Everything will then depend on his genius, on his principles, on his passions, � in a word, on his apperceptive forms.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George