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1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe iii. 137 Nevertheless, this not to be any Animal, Conscious and Self-perceptive Life, but a Plastick Life of Nature only.

1728 Z. Mayne Two Diss. conc. Sense & Imagination 179 No Knowledge, which is an Act of Judgment, or is acquired by Reflection, admits of that Degree of Self-evidence, as a Knowledge which is merely perceptive, and derives its Evidence from the Perception of itself, or is Self-evident, because Self-perceptive.

1853 S. Neil Art Reasoning ii. vi. 63 Intuition is that power which the mind possesses of looking at itself... When the intellect is excited to any course of action, this self-perceptive power enables it to discern its own state or condition.

1962 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Sept. 669/2 (advt.) A father's acutely self-perceptive and compassionate account of his relations with his young son whom he rightly suspects is not his own.

2007 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 25 June Brown is self-perceptive enough to know that he has to try to change this image of him as a secretive, difficult, cabalistic control-freak.