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- noun Plural form of
apperception .
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Examples
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Overall, economic truths are obscured and statistics fudged to promote apperceptions of recovery.
Danny Schechter: As the Economy Slides, Time to Rein in the Banksters 2010
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The next world is made of “visionary apperceptions,” according to Iranian tradition.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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The next world is made of “visionary apperceptions,” according to Iranian tradition.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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The next world is made of “visionary apperceptions,” according to Iranian tradition.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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Wherefore the fact that their end was not actually accomplished, could be charged only to the merciless quickness of the boy's own apperceptions.
The Genius Margaret Horton Potter
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He had not, even in a year when blamelessness rather than experience was his party's supreme need in a candidate, become its banner bearer without possessing certain political apperceptions.
The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors Mary Heaton Vorse 1920
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Meantime, during the apperceptive delay, the energy spills over into less appropriate neurograms, albeit they are more quickly mobilized, with the result of evoking bizarre imagery; what I have called trial apperceptions. 36 Sometimes, too, this is adequate to meet the situation; for the resolution of the unadjusted is complete so soon as the stimulus is drained off, re-distributed and dynamically absorbed, as in the case of mechanical "lost motion."
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This wish (to substitute reflexology for histology) contributes a special configuration or phantastic, wishful arrangement to the group of successive trial apperceptions called forth by the physical stimulus (A).
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As a result, I have come to regard the successive evocations of imagery in the dream and even their reciprocal adaptations under the influence of creative fancy, as being trial apperceptions or attempted responses to one or more cues, either sensory or psychic.
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Many examples could be cited from dreams, drowsy states and lapses of thought, showing the ways in which sequential neurograms produce trial apperceptions, pending the final revelation, through consciousness, of the original neurogram.
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