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Illusions - A Psychological Study
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The present volume takes a wide survey of the field of error, embracing in its view not only the illusions of sense dealt with in treatises on physiological optics, etc., but also other errors familiarly known as illusions, and resembling the former in their structure and mode of origin. I have throughout endeavoured to keep to a strictly scientific treatment, that is to say, the description and classification of acknowledged errors, and the explanation of these by a reference to their psychical and physical conditions. At the same time, I was not able, at the close of my exposition, to avoid pointing out how the psychology leads on to the philosophy of the subject….
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Table of contents
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I. - THE STUDY OF ILLUSION
- CHAPTER II. - THE CLASSIFICATION OF ILLUSIONS
- CHAPTER III. - ILLUSIONS OF PERCEPTION: GENERAL
- CHAPTER IV. - ILLUSIONS OF PERCEPTION continued
- CHAPTER V. - ILLUSIONS OF PERCEPTION continued
- CHAPTER VI. - ILLUSIONS OF PERCEPTION continued
- CHAPTER VII. - DREAMS
- CHAPTER VIII. - ILLUSIONS OF INTROSPECTION
- CHAPTER IX. - OTHER QUASI-PRESENTATIVE ILLUSIONS: ERRORS OF INSIGHT
- CHAPTER X. - ILLUSIONS OF MEMORY
- CHAPTER XI. - ILLUSIONS OF BELIEF
- CHAPTER XII. - RESULTS
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