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Illusions

CHAPTER II
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Finally, it is agreed on by all that the beliefs we are wont to regard as self-evident are sometimes erroneous.

When, for example, an imaginative woman says she knows, by mere intuition, that something interesting is going to happen, say the arrival of a favourite friend, she is plainly running the risk of being self-deluded.

So, too, a man's estimate of himself, however valid for him, may turn out to be flagrantly false.
In the following discussion of the subject I shall depart from the above order in so far as to set out with illusions of sense-perception.

These are well ascertained, forming, indeed, the best-marked variety.

And the explanation of these has been carried much further than that of the others.


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