Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Apperception"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Apperception \Ap`per*cep"tion\, n. [Pref. ad- + perception: cf.
F. apperception.] (Metaph.)
The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in
its own states; perception that reflects upon itself;
sometimes, intensified or energetic perception. --Leibnitz.
Reid.
This feeling has been called by philosophers the
apperception or consciousness of our own existence.
--Sir W.
Hamilton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
apperception
n : the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are
related to past experience
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