apperception (a per seps hon)

[ (which see) with the added consciousne that it is "I" who perceive. It is well to make a distinction between perception, which is the inner state of the monad, representing external things, and apperception , which is consciousne , or the reflexive knowledge of this interior state, which is not given to all souls, nor always to the same soul. Leibnitz , Nature and Grace, tr. by N. Porter, § 4. The Leibnitzo-Wolffians distinguished three acts in the proce of representative cognition: (1) The act of representing a (mediate) object to the mind; (2) the represent a tion, or, to speak more properly, representamen, as an (immediate or vicarious) object exhibited to the mind; (3) the act by which the mind is conscious immediately of the representative object, and through it mediately of the remote object represented. They called the first perception; the last, apperception ; the second, idea. Sir W. Hamilton , Reid, p. 877, note. Hence, by a slight modification-2. With Kant and most English writers, an act of voluntary consciousne , accompanied with self-consciousne : especially in the phrase pure ap perception. My theory, like Kant's, lays apperception, anglicè reflection, at the basis of philosophy. Hodgson, Phil. of Reflection, I. 224. 3. In the psychology of Herbart (1776-1841), the coalescence of the remainder of a new isolated idea with an older one, by a modification of one or the other.-4. Apprehension; recognition. A shrivelled cadaverous piece of deformity in the shape of an izzard or an app ers i and. Macklin, Man of the World, iii. 1. appertain (ap-er-tān'), v, i. [Early mod. E. also appertane, a pertain, Hang mournful epitaphs, and do all rites That appertain unto a burial. Shak., Much Ado, iv. 1. The Father, to whom in heaven supreme Kingdom, and power, and glory appertains . IMG:content-0986.png:[graphic] Milton , P. L., vi. 815. In giving him to another, it [love] still more gives him to himself. He does not longer appertain to his family and society; he is somewhat; he is a person. Emerson, E ays, 1st ser., p. 161. I am much inclined to suspect that the fo il upon which the genus Ornithopter us has been founded appertains to a true Bird. Huxley , Anat. Vert., p. 232. =Syn. See pertain. appertainance (ap-er-tā'nans), n. [ appertain + -ance . Cf. appertenance and appurtenance .] 1. The quality or state of appertaining. [Rare.] The noblest elevations of the human mind have in ap pertain ance their sands and swamps. Landor , Imaginary Conversations. (N. E. D. ) 2. A thing which appertains; an appurtenance. appertainment (ap-er-tan ment), n. [ We lay by Our appertainments . Shak ., T. and C., ii. 3. appertenanced fo appertenencet, appertinencet, n. forms of appurtenance. appertinent (a-pèr'ti-nent), a. and n. [Same as appurtenant, after the L. appertinen (t-) s: see appurtenant.] I. a. Belonging; properly relating; appurtenant. All the other gifts appertinent to man. Shak ., 2 Hen. IV., i. 2. II. n. That which appropriately belongs to something else; an appurtenance. You know how apt our love was, to accord To furnish him with all appertinents Belonging to his honour. Shak ., Hen. V., ii. 2.