Illusions eBook

James Sully
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 358 pages of information about Illusions.

Illusions eBook

James Sully
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 358 pages of information about Illusions.
in, 168;
    co-operation of attention and intelligence in, 172;
    limits of intelligence in, 180;
    after-dreams, 183, 274;
    relation of, to hypnotic condition, 185;
    experience of, in relation to errors of memory, 273.

  E.

  Eccentricity, law of, 59.

  Ego. See Self.

  Emotion, and illusion of perception, 103;
    and hallucination, 115;
    and bodily sensations, 150;
    control of dreams by, 164;
    introspection of, 199;
    and illusion of introspection, 203;
    and aesthetic intuition, 213;
    and illusion of memory, 270;
    and illusion of belief, 306, 324;
    and cognition generally, 357, note[159].

  Empiricism, philosophic, 348.

  Ennui, and sense of time, 250.

  Environment, sources of sense-illusion in, 47, 48, 70;
    view of, in mental disease, 290, 326;
    view of, in normal life, 323;
    action of, in assimilating belief, 339.

  Error, immediate and mediate, 6, 334.

  Esquirol, J.E.D., 12, note[2].

  Evolution, relation of, to dissolution, 122;
    of power of introspection, 209;
    of power of insight, 230;
    and self-assertion, 320;
    evolutionist’s view of error, 339;
    doctrine of, as science, 346.

  Exaggeration, in interpretation of sensations, 65;
    in dream-interpretation, 147;
    in memory, 269.

  Expectation, preliminary to perception, 30;
    and illusory perception, 93, 102, 106;
    nature of, 295;
    and memory, 298;
    of new experience, 301;
    of remote events, 302;
    measurement of duration in, 302;
    action of imagination in, 305;
    extension of meaning of, 307, 308.

  Experience, effect of, in perception, 22, 68, 85, 86, 91;
    external and internal, 194, 210;
    revivals of waking, in dreams, 152;
    effects of present, on retrospection, 267;
    anticipation of new, 301.

  External world. See World.

  F.

  Fallacy and illusion 6, 335;
    of testimony, 265.

  Familiarity, sense of, in new objects, 272, 281.

  Fechner, G.T., 51.

  Ferrier, Dr., 32, note[12], 58, note[26].

  Fiction, as producing illusion, 278, 279, 311.

  Fitness. See Adaptation.

  Flattery, rationale of, 200, 222.

  Forgetfulness and illusion, 278, 279, 311.

  Free-will, doctrine of, 207, 342, 356.

  Future. See Expectation.

  G.

  Galton, F., 117.

  Ghosts. See Hallucination.

  Goethe, 116, 117, 280 and note[131].

  Griesinger, W., 13, note[2], 63, note[31], 66, note[32], 115, 118,
    note[62], 119, note[64], 120, note[66], 290, note[135], 327,
    note[146].

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