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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of apperceive.

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Examples

  • To others, again, etymology and linguistic thoughts may be suggested; or blue may be 'apperceived' as a synonym for melancholy, and a train of associates connected with morbid psychology may proceed to unroll themselves.

    Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals William James 1876

  • Although he did not always explain the distinction between conscious and unconscious appetitions with care and uniformity, it seems clear that he committed himself to appetitions of which we are not conscious, or which we do not apperceive, just as he had committed himself to perceptions which are not apperceived.

    Leibniz's Philosophy of Mind Kulstad, Mark 2007

  • There is no distinct boundary between the perceived and the apperceived, and Wundt's analogy may be misleading [50] to the extent that it gives the impression of two separable forms of attention able in principle to subsist together simultaneously (that is, apperception focusing upon a point in the perceptual field while that field continues to be perceived).

    Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt Kim, Alan 2006

  • We can obviously say nothing immediate about how the central sense-excitations would be sensed independently of the latter; thus Weber's Law, too, concerns only apperceived sensations, and therefore can just as well have its basis in the processes of the apperceptive comparison of sensation as in the original constitution of the central sensory excitations.

    Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt Kim, Alan 2006

  • This latter statement may also be expressed as follows: The strength of a stimulus must increase geometrically if the strength of the apperceived sensation is to increase arithmetically.

    Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt Kim, Alan 2006

  • His interpretation of WL nicely illustrates how, on his view, physiological experiments can yield mathematically expressible results, not about the physical, somatic processes involved in sensation, but about the relationships among these sensations as apperceived, i.e., as psychological elements and objects of consciousness.

    Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt Kim, Alan 2006

  • And then he looked afore him, and there he apperceived and saw come an armed knight, with many lights about him; and this knight had a long gisarm in his hand, and made grim countenance to smite him.

    Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

  • It asks to be “apperceived” in a partic - ular way.

    EMPATHY CHARLES EDWARD GAUSS 1968

  • 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.

    Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck

  • Johnny is as sure it is his father as if he could see his face close beside him he has apperceived him.

    Applied Psychology for Nurses Mary F. Porter

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