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.

  OTHER QUASI-PRESENTATIVE ILLUSIONS:  ERRORS OF INSIGHT.

Emotion and Perception, 212; AEsthetic Intuition, 213; Subjective Impressions of beauty misinterpreted, 213-216; analogous Emotional Intuitions, 216, 217; Insight, its nature, 217-220; Passive Illusions of Insight, 220-222; Active Illusions of Insight:  projection of individual feelings, 222-224; the poetic transformation of nature, 224-226; special predispositions as falsifying Insight, 226-228; value of faculty of Insight, 228-230.

CHAPTER X.

  ILLUSIONS OF MEMORY.

Vulgar confidence in Memory, 231-233; definition of Memory, 233-235; Psychology of Memory, 235-237; Physiology of Memory, 237, 238; Memory as localization in the past, 238-241; Illusions of Memory classified, 241-245.

  (1) Illusions of Time-Perspective:—­

(a) Definite Localization of events:  constant errors in retrospective estimate of time, 245-249; varying errors:  estimate of duration during a period, 249-251; variations in retrospective estimate of duration, 251-256.

  (b) Indefinite Localization:  effect of vividness of mnemonic image
  on the apparent distance of events, 256-258; isolated public events,
  258, 259; active element in errors of Localization, 259-261.

(2) Distortions of Memory:—­Transformation of past through forgetfulness, 261-264; confusion of distinct recollections, 264-266; Active Illusion:  influence of present imaginative activity, 266-269; exaggeration in recollections of remote experiences, 269, 270; action of present feeling in transforming past, 270, 271.
(3) Hallucinations of Memory:—­Their nature, 271-273; past dreams taken for external experiences, 273-277; past waking imagination taken for external reality, 277-280; recollection of prenatal ancestral experience, 280, 281; filling up gaps in recollection, 281-283. Illusions connected with, Personal Identity:—­Illusions of Memory and Sense of identity, 283, 284; idea of permanent self, how built up, 285-287; disturbances of sense of identity, 287-290; fallibility and trustworthiness of Memory, 290-292.

  NOTE.—­Momentary Illusions of Self-consciousness, 293.

CHAPTER XI.

  ILLUSIONS OF BELIEF.

  Belief as Immediate or Intuitive, 294-296; simple and compound
  Belief, 296.

  A. Simple Illusory Belief:—­

      (1) Expectation:  its nature, 297, 298; Is Expectation ever intuitive?
        298; Expectation and Inference from the past, 299-301; Expectation
        of new kinds of experience, 301, 302; Permanent Expectations
        of remote events, 302; misrepresentation of future duration,
        302-305; Imaginative transformation of future, 305-307.

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