Illusions : a psychological study.

  • James Sully
Date:
1887
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    CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE STUDY OF ILLUSION. Vulgar idea of Illusion, 1, 2 ; Psychological treatment of subject, 3, 4 ; definition of Illusion, 4-7; Philosophic extension of idea, 7, 8. CHAPTER II. THE CLASSIFICATION OF ILLUSIONS. Popular and Scientific conceptions of Mind, 9, 10; Illusion and Halluci- nation, 11-13 ; varieties of Immediate Knowledge, 13-16 ; fourfold division of Illusions, 16-18. CHAPTER III. ILLUSIONS OF PERCEPTION : GENERAL. Psychology of Perception :—The Psychological analysis of Perception, 19, 20; Sensation and its discrimination, etc., 20, 21 ; interpretation of Sensation, 22, 23; construction of material object, 23, 24; recogni- tion of object, specific and individual, 24-27; Preperception and Perception, 27-31; Physiological conditions of Perception, 31-33 ; Visual and other Sense-perception, 33, 3 4. Illusions of Perception:—Illusion of Perception defined, 35-38; sources of Sense-illusion, 38-40 : (a) confusion of Sense-impression, 40-44 ; (i>) misinterpretation of Sense-impression, 44; Passive and Active misinterpretation, 44-46; Passive Illusions as organically and extra- organically conditioned, 46-49.
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