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My apperceptive mass goes back 50 years when I was the bird-dog for Jack Kaplan, then worth over $100 million and denoted as a big boodle for a sole operator.

From Forbes • Mar. 30, 2015

How life in any stage might be filled with richness and joy, if imaginations were stored with apperceptive elements and allowed to reconstruct the universe in our fancies!

From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)

Active attitude and the concept, 128 Analysis, 111-115, 152 f.; in education, 112 Apperception, 199; apperceptive masses, 203 Application, 129 f.,

From How We Think by Dewey, John

By means of this interweaving, the stimulation of the apperceptive element transmits itself to the remaining elements of the association complex.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various

We can know things only in terms of our "apperceptive mass," but that does not mean that things exist only by virtue of our apperceptive mass.

From Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive by Anderson, Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester)