On the other hand, any illusions connected with the consciousness of personal continuity and identity would fall rather under the class of mnemonic than that of introspective error.
The term introspective knowledge must, it is plain, be confined to what is or appears to be in the mind at the moment of inspection.
For example, a mental state may fail to disclose its component parts to introspective attention.
The impulse to hold to the illusion in spite of critical reflection, involves the further introspective illusion of taking a state of doubt for one of assurance.
And the progress of psychology and the correction of illusion proceed by means of an ever-improving exercise of the introspective faculty.
Similarly, when it is said that the idea of space contains no representations of muscular sensation, the statement may clearly arise from the want of a sufficiently careful kind of introspective analysis.
When this is so, it is impossible by a mere introspective glance to detect the falsity of the message from the past.
He was of an introspective nature and himself wondered whether the morphine did not have something to do with his enlisting.
He began to neglect his uniform, could not keep his equipment in order, became introspective and depressed.
As for Christina, let it be clearly and early understood that she was neither an introspective girl by nature nor a particularly good one from any point of view.
She became what she had never been before, even when notoriety had made her reckless--an introspective girl.
And that made her twisty and queer and unaccountable; for, to be introspective with equanimity, you must have a bluff belief in yourself, which is not necessarily conceit, but Tiny was not blessed with it.
To quote from our classification attempted in the first chapter, he is one of "those introspective natures who are first and chiefly aware of their own misery, and finally come to regard it as representative of universal evil.
The representatives of the second type are those introspective natures who are first and chiefly aware of their own misery and finally come to regard it as representative of universal evil.
Kant derived from the introspective study of his own gifted mind an extremely high estimate of human reason, and he fallaciously transferred this estimate to the human mind generally.
He was born on the third of March, 1878, and had published a long list of literary critiques, biographies, interpretations of nature, and introspective essays.
But a little introspective observation will show any one that voluntary attention cannot be continuously sustained,--that it comes in beats.
Man stands so close to the portals of insanity that he can look through the gateway, when he takes an introspective view of his psychical being, and can see the phantoms and mental ghosts of his insane personality.
When we take an introspective view of our sane personality, we shudder to see how near it is to the borderlands of insanity and the bizarre and eccentric world of crankdom.
The slow smile came and went in the introspective eyes of the older man.
He knitted his brows together, and a curiously strained introspective look came into his eyes.
I am not a particularly introspective man, nor more than a skin-deep psychologist, but it was not a difficult thing to trace to its source the cause of my uneasiness.
The introspective individuality of the Spaniard was pointed out by Martin A.
I believe the time is not far distant when the old medieval, introspective psychology of the schools will be displaced by a more scientific system.
At the same time I became introspective and self-centered.
Again I began to growintrospective and melancholy, and soon had a return of all my symptoms of old.
He was gazing with introspective eyes at the paper which was now lying in the girl's lap.
He was not looking at them now, but sat gazing at the blank wall in front of him with thoughtful, introspective eyes.
Sometimes he is so introspective that he appears to me actually to be burrowing in harmony like a mole.
These are even more introspective than Schumann's works and combine a wealth of learning with great depth of musical feeling.
Judging from the introspective notes, the outline seems to suffer, in competition with a colored content, some loss of power to carry the attention and maintain its place in the ideation.
In one case the ideas of rest and of movement were curiously associated in the same introspective act.
The result fully bears out, when read in the light of the introspective notes, what has been said of the importance of the motor element in ideation.
We also found desirable corroboration, by trustworthy subjects, of the introspective observations of the author, which were reported in Chapter III, with regard to the significance of concentration and the curve of attention.
The Best Wine", by William de Ryee, is an earnestly introspective poem, well cast in iambic pentameter quatrains.
In Passing By", by Sophie Lea Fox, is a meritorious poem of the thoughtful, introspective type, which has been previously honoured with professional publication.
He was a handsome man, with a cleanly-shaven face, introspective brown eyes and a petulant, drooping mouth.
It is the outcome of his extremely analytical and introspective mind.
In others a more reflective andintrospective quality is found.
Then he stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular introspective fashion.
He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective fashion which was characteristic of him.
Those three weeks on wheels were idyllic--rest in motion, quiet introspective joy with a changing outward panorama of pleasant images.
Let me think,” said Emmeline, with dreamy introspective eyes, deeply interested by the question and vibrating with anxious care as she answered it.
It was more like the face of one lost in deep, absorbed, introspective thought.
