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Example sentences for "apperceive"

Lexicographically close words:
appending; appendix; appends; appened; appens; apperceived; apperceiving; apperception; apperceptions; apperceptive
  1. Spirits say they know such by their coldness, and that when they apperceive the cold they depart from them.

  2. It was given me also to apperceive the character of their internal respiration.

  3. They said they worshipped some angel, who appears to them as a Divine man, for he is resplendent with light; and that he instructs them and enables them to apperceive what they ought to do.

  4. When they were come, they instantly ran over the things that were in my memory, but, owing to their promptness, I was unable to apperceive what they observed.

  5. By bringing his old knowledge to bear on such a sentence as "The men who brought it returned at once"; the pupil may be asked first to apperceive the subordinate clause, who brought it.

  6. When later, through the building up of his geometric knowledge, he is able to apperceive that the interior angles equal two right angles, his knowledge of a triangle expands through the synthesis of this with the former knowledge.

  7. Thus, so long as the child is able to apperceive only the three sides and three angles of a triangle, his idea of triangle includes a synthesis of these.

  8. Education is especially valuable, in fact, in that it so adds to the experience of the child that he may more fully apperceive his surroundings.

  9. Since the mind can apperceive only that for which it is prepared through former experience, the interpretation of the same presentations will be likely to differ greatly in different individuals.

  10. It consists in trying to apperceive the ease successively by a number of different ideas, which seem to fit it more or less, until at last you hit on one which seems to fit it exactly.

  11. A medical or engineering expert retained on one side of a case will not apperceive the facts in the same way as if the other side had retained him.

  12. I cannot but think that to apperceive your pupil as a little sensitive, impulsive, associative, and reactive organism, partly fated and partly free, will lead to a better intelligence of all his ways.

  13. The self-same person, according to the line of thought he may be in, or to his emotional mood, will apperceive the same impression quite differently on different occasions.

  14. Only when the older and the newer experiences are congruous enough to mutually apperceive and modify each other, does what we treat as an advance in truth result.

  15. On the contrary, they apperceive every experience and assign it to its place.

  16. We apperceive rather this aggregate feeling, which is joined to the last directly apperceived element, and which is the resultant of the preceding affective processes.

  17. What we apperceive is not the preceding row itself.

  18. The housewife may apperceive old rags as something to be thrown away; a ragpicker, as something to be gathered up.

  19. Again, we may apperceive an object or quality from our recognition of something which in our experience has been associated, under those particular circumstances, with only that object or quality.

  20. From my perception, then, of hoof or sound I apperceive cow.

  21. If there is only one natural law, and we see it only in seemingly unrelated facets because of our ignorance, because we cannot apperceive the whole, then this, too, is no more than another facet.

  22. What if there be only one natural law manifesting itself, as yet, to us in many facets because we cannot apperceive the whole, of which we have gained only the most elementary glimpses, with which we can cope only at the crudest level?

  23. He can not apperceive it so as to permit him to gratify my claim; but there is enough appeal in the claim to induce him to write a whole article in justification of his refusal.


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