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apperception
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ap·per·cep·tion  (pr-spshn)
n.
1. Conscious perception with full awareness.
2. The process of understanding by which newly observed qualities of an object are related to past experience.

[New Latin appercepti, apperceptin- : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin percepti, perception; see perception.]

apper·ceptive (-sptv) adj.

apperception [ˌæpəˈsɛpʃən]
n Psychol
1. (Psychology) the attainment of full awareness of a sensation or idea
2. (Psychology) the act or process of apperceiving
apperceptive  adj
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.apperception - the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experienceapperception - the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience
basic cognitive process - cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge
Translations
apperception [ˌæpəˈsepʃən]
A. N (frm) → percepción f
B. CPD apperception test N (US) → test m de percepción
apperception
n (Philos, Psych) → bewusste Wahrnehmung


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Thus, the Citta of the Sensual-Realm Associated-with-Knowledge, having arisen for four or three Apperceptive Moments, then ceases, and is followed by : iii) One of the twenty-six Sublime and Transcendentavl Apperceptions (Mahaggata-Javana and Lokuttara-Javana), whichever is suited to the person, then descends into the State-of-Absorption (Appana-Vithi) for one moment.
At their best, his arguments were wholly persuasive and his apperceptions irresistible, and if he was occasionally irascible, garrulous, and egotistical in later years, these indulgences were more than offset by his outsize accomplishments, usual decorum, and charisma.
54) Nor, for Scalia, was the common law at the time of the Founding an evolving body, at least not according to his account of the apperceptions of eighteenth-century thinkers.
 
 
 
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