apperception — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. 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.

   Gebrauch

   • especially
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2. Psychological or mental perception; recognition.

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   Beispiele

   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.

3. The general process or a particular act of mental assimilation of new experience into the totality of one's past experience.

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Substantiv

1. the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience

   Oberbegriffe

   basic cognitive process