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

The mechanical organization of external nature is thus the source of apperceptive forms in the mind.

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

It is his strength that he recognizes that an apperceptive unity interpreting sensations through categories which constitute the synthetic content of self-consciousness is indispensable to experience.

From John Dewey's logical theory by Howard, Delton Thomas

The highest work of schools, colleges, and universities is to fill the lives of men and women with the apperceptive centres of the community ideal.

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