Apperception

Definitions

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.
   especially, uncountable
2. Psychological or mental perception; recognition.
   uncountable
3. The general process or a particular act of mental assimilation of new experience into the totality of one's past experience.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“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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