ction in psychology and
philosophy, 205-208; value of the Introspective method, 208-211.
CHAPTER IX.
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_:--
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