Comprehension vs Apperception - What's the difference?
comprehension | apperception |
thorough understanding
(logic) The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.
(computing) a compact syntax for generating a list in some functional programming languages
(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.
* 2009 , Adam Roberts, Yellow Blue Tibia :
(countable, psychology) The general process or a particular act of mental assimilation of new experience into the totality of one's past experience.
As nouns the difference between comprehension and apperception
is that comprehension is while apperception is (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.comprehension
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(en noun)Synonyms
* understandingapperception
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(wikipedia apperception)Noun
- For as she smiled I was gifted a glimpse past the apperception of an anonymous spherical quantity of human flesh; and into the individual.
References
* * * * *"apperception" in Encyclopedia Britannica , 1911 ed. * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996) * Dictionary of Philosophy'', (ed.), Philosophical Library, 1962. ''See: "Apperception" by Otto F. Kkraushaar, p. 15.