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

Hugh, the splendid young animal who was John Willet’s stable boy in Barnaby Rudge, was as deficient of most intellectual and spiritual apperceptive centres as poor Jo.

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

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)

By means of this interweaving, the stimulation of the apperceptive element transmits itself to the remaining elements of the association complex.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various

Now the "apperceptive basis" of material furnished by teacher and text-book should be found, as far as possible, in what the learner has derived from more direct forms of his own experience.

From How We Think by Dewey, John