apperceptive
- a word derived from apperception.
Example Sentences
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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
The second story in each group makes an appeal to the child's reasoning powers; having secured his attention through the apperceptive story, the story-teller now takes the child a-field, mentally, and secures his voluntary attention.
From Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs by Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin
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)
Now the "apperceptive basis" of material furnished by teacher and text-book should be found, as far as possible, in what the learner has derived from more direct forms of his own experience.
From How We Think by Dewey, John
Hugh, the splendid young animal who was John Willet’s stable boy in Barnaby Rudge, was as deficient of most intellectual and spiritual apperceptive centres as poor Jo.
From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)
