apperception
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French aperception (New Latin apperceptiō, used by Gottfried Leibnitz (1646–1716)).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌæpəˈsɛpʃən/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌæpɚˈsɛpʃən/
Noun
apperception (countable and uncountable, plural apperceptions)
- (uncountable, psychology and philosophy, especially Kantianism) 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.
- (uncountable) Psychological or mental perception; recognition.
- 1887, John Dewey, Psychology:
- Conception is... the simplest act of thinking; it is the apprehension of the universal, as perception is the apperception of the particular.
- 2009, Adam Roberts, Yellow Blue Tibia:
- For as she smiled I was gifted a glimpse past the apperception of an anonymous spherical quantity of human flesh; and into the individual.
- (countable, psychology) The general process or a particular act of mental assimilation of new experience into the totality of one's past experience.
Related terms
Translations
mind’s perception of itself as subject
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mental perception
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mental assimilation of new experience
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References
- apperception in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- “apperception”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “apperception”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "apperception" in Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911 ed.
- Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)
- Dictionary of Philosophy, Dagobert D. Runes (ed.), Philosophical Library, 1962. See: "Apperception" by Otto F. Kkraushaar, p. 15.