different between apperceive vs apperception

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French aperceveir, apercevoir, from Late Latin *appercipi?, from ad- + percipi?.

Verb

apperceive (third-person singular simple present apperceives, present participle apperceiving, simple past and past participle apperceived)

1. (obsolete) To perceive.
2. (psychology) To be aware of perceiving; to understand a perception by linking it mentally with a mass of existing ideas of the same object.

Derived terms

• apperceiving mass

Related terms

• apperception

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French aperception (New Latin appercepti?, used by Gottfried Leibnitz (1646–1716)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æp??s?p??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æp??s?p??n/

Noun

apperception (countable and uncountable, plural apperceptions)

1. (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.
2. (uncountable) Psychological or mental perception; recognition.
3. (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

• apperceive
• apperceptive

Translations

References

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “apperception”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• apperception in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “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.