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

But Ivan was Ivan still: high-strung, keenly apperceptive and receptive; his spiritual, like his physical, nerves, alive to every emotion, every pain or pleasure that rose up into his present.

From The Genius by Potter, Margaret Horton

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

The percipient mind is no mere recipiency or susceptibility with its forms of time and space: it is spontaneously active, it is the source of categories, or is an apperceptive power,—an understanding.

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