apperception

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Dewey fails to make a distinction, which might have been useful to him, between Kant's unity of apperception and his productive imagination.

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

It follows naturally from the principle of apperception: the interpretation of the unknown in terms of the known; the extension of accumulated experience to the interpretation of new experiences.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.

It is the “transcendental unity of consciousness” of Kant—his synthetic unity of apperception.

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

There was one in every apperception center and there were hundreds more throughout The Brain, and their purpose was to replenish the liquid insulation which shielded the sensitive electric nervepaths of The Brain.

From The Brain by Blade, Alexander

For this term indicates the relation of these representations to the original apperception, and also their necessary unity, even though the judgement itself is empirical, and therefore contingent, e. g.

From Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Prichard, Harold Arthur