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.

  Sensation, element in perception, 20;
    discrimination and classification of, 21;
    interpretation of, 22;
    inattention to, 39, 87;
    modified by central reaction, 39, 87, 89, 91;
    confusion of novel, 40;
    indistinct, 41;
    misinterpretation of, 44;
    relation of, to stimulus, 46, 50;
    limits to discrimination of, 52;
    after-impression, 55;
    subjective, 59, 62, 107, 143;
    localization of, 59.

  Sensibility, limits of, 50;
    variations of, 64.

  Sensualism, philosophic, 348.

  Shadow, cast, 77.

  Shakespeare, 3.

  Sight, mode of perception, 19, 33, 34, 48, 49;
    local discrimination in, 52;
    single vision, 54;
    localization of impression in, 60;
    in sleep, 139;
    images of, in sleep, 150, 154.

  Single, vision, 54;
    touch, 72.

  Sleep, mystery of, 127;
    physiology of, 131.

  Sleight of hand. See Conjuror.

  Smell, as mode of perception, 34, note[14];
    localization of impression in, 60;
    subjective sensations of, 108;
    in sleep, 141;
    and taste, 171.

  Solidity, illusory perception of, 75, 96.

  Space, representation of, 207.

  Specific energy of nerves, 58.

  Spectra, ocular, etc. See Subjective sensation.

  Spencer, Herbert, 32, note[12], 128, note[69], 323, 340.

  Spinoza, 143, 184.

  Spiritualist seances, 103, 107, 123, 265.

  Stereoscope, 75.

  Stewart, Dugald, 172, 306.

  Stimulus, qualitative relation of, to sensations, 46, 58, 67;
    quantitative relation of, to sensation, 50, 64;
    after-effect of, 55;
    prolonged action of, 56;
    subjective or internal, 62;
    exceptional relation of, to organ, 70;
    action of, in sleep, 135, 139, 143;
    in hypnotic condition, 186.

  Struempell, L., 144, 147, note[89].

  Subjective, experience, 26, 27, 137, 214;
    movement, 51, 57;
    sensation, 59, 62, 107, 113, 121, 143.

  Suggestion, by external circumstances, 30, 44, 89, 91, 267;
    verbal, 30, 106, 188, 215, 268, 301, 310.

  Symbol, dream as, 129, 149.

  Sympathy, basis of knowledge, 223;
    and illusion of insight, 223;
    and illusion of memory, 277;
    and momentary illusion, 293.

  T.

  Taine, H., 60, note[29], 108, note[54], 117, note[59], 137,
    298, note[137], 356, note[158].

  Taste, aesthetic. See AEsthetic intuition.

  Taste, localization of impression in, 60;
    subjective sensations of, 63;
    variations in sensibility, 68;
    activity of, in sleep, 141;
    and smell, 171.

  Temperament, a factor in sense-illusion, 101;
    in dreams, 137;
    in illusory belief, 325;
    in illusion generally, 334, note[149].

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