Apperception
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˌæpəˈsɛpʃən/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Apperception is a noun meaning (uncountable) Psychological or mental perception; recognition.
Meaning
(uncountable) Psychological or mental perception; recognition.
More Meanings
- (countable, psychology) The general process or a particular act of mental assimilation of new experience into the totality of one's past experience.
- (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.
Example Sentences
For as she smiled I was gifted a glimpse past the apperception of an anonymous spherical quantity of human flesh; and into the individual.
Conception is... the simplest act of thinking; it is the apprehension of the universal, as perception is the apperception of the particular.
Word Forms
- apperceptions
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include percept, metaperception, perceiverance, self, anschauung, perceivancy.
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