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The Definition of Perception |
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Perception is produced by the cooperation of the senses and the mind |
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Perception consists of an association of sensations and images |
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Examples of illusions of the senses |
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First: The definition of images |
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The motor type. Second: The physiological theory of images |
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Images result from an excitation of the sensory centers of the cerebral surface layers. Third: The image compared with the consecutive sensation of sight |
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First: Properties of images associated with sensations |
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Experiments on hypnotic hallucination. Second: Perception results from an operation of synthesis |
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Generic perception and individual perception |
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These two kinds of perception are only different phases of the same process |
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Proofs drawn from hypnotic experiments on systematized anæsthesia. Third: Perception is a reasoning |
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Comparison of perception with the syllogism |
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The illusion is a sophism. Fourth: To what conditions must an explanation of reasoning be subject? |
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Discussion of Mr. Spencer's theory |
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The Mechanism of Reasoning |
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The total fusion of sensations in Weber's experiment |
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The partial fusion in the zootrope |
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The partial fusion of images in the cases of Henslow and of Goethe |
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The partial fusion of images in the formation of general ideas |
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Comparisons drawn from Galton's generic images |
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Physiological expression of the law of fusion. Second: The fusion of sensations and of images |
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Hypnagogic hallucinations |
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Voluntary and involuntary illusions |
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Analysis of a simple perception |
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Every perception is an operation in three terms. Third: Proofs drawn from complex perceptions |
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New comparison between perception and the syllogism |
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First: Logical reasonings have the same mechanism as perceptive reasoning |
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New arrangement of the syllogistic propositions. Second: Reasoning compared to a supplementary sense. Third: Reasoning is the single type of all intellectual operations. Fourth: Reasoning is an organization of images |
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Physiological theory of reasoning |
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