apperception
nounUK /ˌæpəˈsɛpʃən/ · US /ˌæpɚˈsɛpʃən/
Etymology Borrowed from French aperception (New Latin apperceptiō, used by Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716)).
1
Kantianism, Human sciences, Philosophy, Psychology, Sciences Especially The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states, unifying past and present experiences; self-consciousness, perception that reflects upon itself.
2
Psychological or mental perception; recognition.
- Conception is... the simplest act of thinking; it is the apprehension of the universal, as perception is the apperception of the particular.1887, John Dewey, Psychology:
- For as she smiled I was gifted a glimpse past the apperception of an anonymous spherical quantity of human flesh; and into the individual.2009, Adam Roberts, Yellow Blue Tibia:
3
Human sciences, Psychology, Sciences The general process or a particular act of mental assimilation of new experience into the totality of one's past experience.
- Related terms
- apperceive, apperceptive