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apperception |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Apperception \Ap`per*cep"tion\, n. [Pref. ad- + perception: cf F. apperception.] (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. --Leibnitz. Reid. This feeling has been called by philosophers the apperception or consciousness of our own existence. --Sir W. Hamilton. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: apperception n : the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience
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