Apperception

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           This feeling has been called by philosophers the
           apperception or consciousness of our own existence.
                                                    --Sir W.
                                                    Hamilton.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  apperception
       n : the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are
           related to past experience