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apperception

[ap-er-sep-shuhn] / ˌæp ərˈsɛp ʃən /








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This was unexpected; it couldn't be that thoughts were still forming as flames devoured the cortex matter of apperception in the hemispheres....

From The Brain by Blade, Alexander

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

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.

"This question is for the real Haslop: Have you ever been put through a Rorschach, thematic apperception or free association test?"

From Problem on Balak by Aycock, Roger D.

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




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