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What does apperception mean?

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Noun
  1. (psychology) 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. (psychology) The general process or a particular act of mental assimilation of new experience into the totality of one's past experience.
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The line of use, by habit of apperception, becomes the line of beauty.
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One of the better-known terms of Leibniz's philosophy, and of his philosophy of mind, is apperception.
They are the indispensable prerequisite of perception, apperception, and experience.
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