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.

  Lustre, as compound sensation, 54.

  Lyell, Sir Charles, 311.

  M.

  Magic, arts of, 73.

  Magnitude, apparent, in vision, 75, note[37];
    perception of, in pictorial art, 88, 91;
    of time-intervals, 245, 249;
    recollection of, 268.

  Malebranche, 116.

  Mankind, our views of, 322.

  Matter. See World (material).

  Maudsley, Dr. H., 32, note[12].

  Maury, A., 140, 143, 153, note[92], 159, 163, note[94], 173.

  Mayer, Dr. A., 66, note[32].

  Measurement, subjective, of time, 245.

  Media, coloured, illusions connected with presence of, 82.

  Memory, nature of, 9, 13, 231;
    veracity of, 232, 290;
    defined, 234;
    psychology of, 236;
    physiology of, 237;
    localization of events in, 238;
    and sense of personal identity, 241, 283;
    illusions of, 241;
    illusory localization, 245, 256;
    distortions of, 261;
    hallucinations of, 271;
    illusions respecting personal identity, 283;
    relation of, to belief, 295;
    compared with expectation, 297;
    and inference, 335.

  Metempsychosis, 294.

  Meyer, H., 83, 144.

  Mill, J.S., 298, note[138], 309.

  Mirrors, as means of delusion, 73.

  Misanthropist, 2, 323.

  Mitchell, Dr. Weir, 62.

  Monomania, 111.

  Moral, intuition, 216;
    self-inspection, 204.

  Motor illusions. See Muscular sense.

  Movement, apparent, 50, 57, 73, 81, 95, 107;
    in dreams, 142, 154.

  Mueller, Johannes, 58, note[27], 100, 117, 143.

  Muscae volitantes, 118, note[62].

  Muscular sense, in perception, 23;
    illusions connected with, 50, 57, 62, 66;
    co-operation, of, in dreams, 142, 154.

  Music, subjective interpretation of, 223.

  N.

  Natural selection, effect of, in eliminating error, 340.

  Nature, personification of, 224;
    uniformity of, 344, 360.

  Necessity, idea of, 349, 360.

  Nervous system, and conditions of perception, 31;
    connections of, 32, 169;
    function of, and force of stimulus, 47, 50;
    prolonged activity of, 55;
    specific energy of, 58;
    variations in state of, 64;
    fatigue of, 65, 115;
    disease of, ibid.;
    nervous conditions of hallucination, 112, 115;
    nervous dissolution and evolution, 122;
    condition of, in sleep, 131;
    in hypnotic condition, 186;
    nervous conditions of memory, 237;
    nervous conditions of illusion in general, 334.

  Normal life, relation of,
    to abnormal, 1, 121, 124, 182, 277, 284, note[132];
    hallucinations of, 116.

  O.

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