apperceive
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A medical or engineering expert retained on one side of a case will not apperceive the facts in the same way as if the other side had retained him.
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by James, William
Then the queen departed into her chamber so that no man should apperceive her great sorrows.
From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed
Similarly, the time-honored phenomenon of diabolical possession is on the point of being admitted by the scientist as a fact, now that he has the name of "hystero-demonopathy" by which to apperceive it.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William
On the contrary, they apperceive every experience and assign it to its place.
From Meaning of Truth by James, William
The self-same person, according to the line of thought he may be in, or to his emotional mood, will apperceive the same impression quite differently on different occasions.
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by James, William
I apperceived that this was their manner of accosting all who come to them.
From Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There by Swedenborg, Emanuel
Thus the columns of a temple represent upward movement, and are apperceived as striving upwards so as to resist the downward pressure of the entablature.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
They also apperceived from my speech that I had come from a great distance.
From Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There by Swedenborg, Emanuel
It is sufficient for the type of individual who malingers to merely say the word, and the most fantastic creation of his fancy immediately becomes a reality and is apperceived by him as such.
From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard
The way in which the human figure, for instance, is depicted, is an indication of the way in which it is apperceived.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George
The only novelty that I can imagine this course of lectures to possess lies in the breadth of the apperceiving mass.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William
This next and highest sphere is action from the general or abstract thoughts which we have been able to work up by the apperceiving activity of the mind.
From The Story of the Mind by Baldwin, James Mark
In the interaction between the old and new the latter then become the apperceiving forces.
From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by McMurry, Charles Alexander
So strong is the apperceiving force of familiar notions that they drag far-distant scenes in geography and history into the home neighborhood and locate them there.
From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by McMurry, Charles Alexander
With Herbart, the ideas gained through experience are the apperceiving power in interpreting new things.
From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by McMurry, Charles Alexander
