Such mentally endowed substances might be called souls; but, as he distinguished between perception and apperception or consciousness, and considered that perceptions are often unconscious, he preferred to divide monads into unconscious entelechies of inorganic bodies, sentient souls of animals, and rational souls, or spirits, of men; while he further concluded that all these are derivative monads created by God, the monad of monads.   anvd [Please select]

In apperception, then, we construct from the known actually perceived by the senses, the unknown.   anvd [Please select]

Thus we see that the terms and faculties of the older psychology can be arranged under this doctrine of Apperception without the necessity of thinking of the mind as doing more than the one thing.   anvd [Please select]

Apperception, then, is the one principle of mental activity on the side of its reception and treatment of the materials of experience.   anvd [Please select]