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

We can know things only in terms of our "apperceptive mass," but that does not mean that things exist only by virtue of our apperceptive mass.

From Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive by Anderson, Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester)

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

Thus the critical analysis must give a logical presentation of the apperceptive and associative processes of revival.

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

Nature, its organization the source of apperceptive forms, 152 et seq.      the love of it among the ancients, 137, 138.

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