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/ˌæpəˈsɛpʃən/ · noun
(uncountable, psychology and philosophy, especially Kantianism) The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states, unifying past and present experiences; self-consciousness, perception that reflects upon itself..
Conception is... the simplest act of thinking; it is the apprehension of the universal, as perception is the apperception of the particular.
For as she smiled I was gifted a glimpse past the apperception of an anonymous spherical quantity of human flesh; and into the individual.
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Apperception means (uncountable, psychology and philosophy, especially Kantianism) The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states, unifying past and present experiences; self-consciousness, perception that reflects upon itself..
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Conception is... the simplest act of thinking; it is the apprehension of the universal, as perception is the apperception of the particular.
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