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Apperception   Listen
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Apperception  n.  (Metaph.) The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states; perception that reflects upon itself; sometimes, intensified or energetic perception. "This feeling has been called by philosophers the apperception or consciousness of our own existence."






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"Apperception" Quotes from Famous Books



... universe and able to remain, as invisible observers, outside all the phenomena of time and space. As the ultimate invisible spectator of the whole panorama, or, in the logical phrase, as the "a priori unity of apperception" our consciousness cannot be visualized in ...
— The Complex Vision • John Cowper Powys

... tastes of the well-to-do classes in those communities in which the dolicho-blond element predominates in an appreciable degree. The lawn unquestionably has an element of sensuous beauty, simply as an object of apperception, and as such no doubt it appeals pretty directly to the eye of nearly all races and all classes; but it is, perhaps, more unquestionably beautiful to the eye of the dolicho-blond than to most other varieties of men. This higher appreciation ...
— The Theory of the Leisure Class • Thorstein Veblen

... on "Apperception der Menschenzeugung als Feuerbereitung," in the Zeitschrift fuer Voelkerpsychologie, Bd. ...
— Nagualism - A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History • Daniel G. Brinton

... bones of the breast and ribbed them with the ribs.' (Q.) 'How many ventricles are there in a man's head?' (A.) 'Three, which contain five faculties, styled the intrinsic senses, i.e. common sense, fancy, thought, apperception and memory.' (Q.) 'Describe to me the scheme of the bones.' (A.) 'It consists of two hundred and forty bones, which are divided into three parts, the head, the trunk and the extremities. The head is divided into skull and face. The skull ...
— The Book Of The Thousand Nights And One Night, Volume IV • Anonymous



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