Pronunciation: | | `apur'sepshun
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WordNet Dictionary |
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| Definition: | |
[n] the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience |
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APPERCEPTION is a 12 letter word that starts with A. |
| See Also: | | basic cognitive process |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \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.
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