CHAPTER IX.
OTHER QUASI-PRESENTATIVE ILLUSIONS: ERRORS OF INSIGHT.
Besides the perception of external objects, and the inspection of our internal mental states, there are other forms of quasi-presentative cognition which need to be touched on here, inasmuch as they are sometimes erroneous and illusory.
In the last chapter I alluded to the fact that emotion may arise as the immediate accompaniment of a sense-impression.

When this is the case there is a disposition to read into the external object a quality answering to the emotion, just as there is a disposition to ascribe to objects qualities of heat and cold answering to the sensations thus called.

And such a reference of an emotional result to an external exciting cause approximates in character to an immediate intuition.

The cognition of the quality is instantaneous, and quite free from any admixture of conscious inference.

Accordingly, we have to inquire into the illusory forms of such intuition, if such there be.
_AEsthetic Intuition._ Conspicuous among these quasi-presentative emotional cognitions is aesthetic intuition, that is to say, the perception of an object as beautiful.