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transcendental unity of apperception

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  1. (in Kantian epistemology) the meaningful organization, within the consciousness, of individual objects of perception.

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It is by means of the transcendental unity of apperception that all the manifold, given in an intuition is united into a conception of the object.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

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