Apperception

//ˌæpəˈsɛpʃən// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience wordnet
  3. 3
    Psychological or mental perception; recognition. uncountable

    "Conception is... the simplest act of thinking; it is the apprehension of the universal, as perception is the apperception of the particular."

  4. 4
    The general process or a particular act of mental assimilation of new experience into the totality of one's past experience. countable

Etymology

Borrowed from French aperception (New Latin apperceptiō, used by Gottfried Leibnitz (1646–1716)).

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