What helps in this case to produce the illusion is the preconception that the present man is the witness's old friend.
On the other hand, illusions of preconception (active illusions) usually involve no such deeply fixed or permanent organic connections, but merely a temporary confluence of nerve-processes.
These illusions frequently involve the co-operation of some preconception or expectation.
They are also largely promoted by a preconception that the event is going to happen in a particular way.
In some measure, stimuli from the outside, especially when they are printed or spoken words, evoke some part of a system of stereotypes, so that the actual sensation and the preconception occupy consciousness at the same time.
But this is only a way of saying just what kind of a real or natural existence the subject is; it is not to fall back on a preconception about an unnatural subject in order to characterize the occurrence of error.
It lay outside the field of controversy, and possessed for Kant, as it had possessed for Hume and for Leibniz, that authoritative and axiomatic character which an unchallenged preconception tends always to acquire.
The ultimate laws and principles which they formulated were laws of the normal or the natural, according to a preconception regarding the ends to which, in the nature of things, all things tend.
It may, however, be worth while to point out another line of influence along which the dominance of the teleological preconception shows itself in Adam Smith.
The Physiocrats owe their preconceptionof the productiveness of nature to the habits of thought of a community in whose economic life the dominant phenomenon was the owner of agricultural land.
The animistic preconception enforces the apprehension of phenomena in terms generically identical with the terms of personality or individuality.
There seems to be reason for holding that the animistic preconception weakened or, at any rate, fell more into the background as his later work of speculation and investigation proceeded.
It implies that the scope and method of the discussion is governed by the preconception that there is one right and beautiful definitive scheme of economic life, "to which the whole creation tends.
So, for instance, it is quite the conventional thing to say that the speculations of the Physiocrats were dominated and shaped by the preconception of Natural Rights.
In effect, this preconception imputes to things a tendency to work out what the instructed common sense of the time accepts as the adequate or worthy end of human effort.
That is to say, Adam Smith's preconception of a productive natural process as the basis of his economic theory dominates his aims and procedure, when he comes to deal with phenomena that cannot be stated in terms of production.
The former preconception is allowed a larger scope in the British than in the French economics: there is more of "induction" in the British.
However this preconception was formed, it at least had the merit of consistency.
The account that these impulsive human beings give of themselves is sensational simply because it clashes with the strict preconception that we are taught to establish.
Plato lays down his own individual preconception respecting the characters of the Gods, as orthodoxy for his Republic: directing that the poets shall provide new narratives conformable to that type.
A too bad preconception causes a pleasant disappointment, the pleasantness that lay in the things themselves is increased by the pleasantness of the surprise.
Otherwise, if there is no such universal necessity, neither can any preconception be a sign of a necessity which exists not.
We require to show beforehand that all things, without exception, happen of necessity in order that a preconception may be a sign of this necessity.
This story happily detects the trick which our imagination plays in the description of single combats: only change the preconception of the magnificence of the combatants, and all is gone.
Readers would not be disappointed in this latter poem, if they proceeded to a perusal of it with a proper preconception of the kind of interest intended to be excited in that admirable work.
In each case the preconception had grown up, as about the myths of Isis, for example, that such books were in some way sacred and inspired.
But since the belief in transmission of acquired adaptations arose from preconception rather than from evidence, it is worth observing that, rightly considered, the probability should surely be the other way.
His persuasion is a work of preconception rather than of perception.
Among other things, their preconception of national animosity is not secure, in the absence of provocation.
Now it also happens, also by historical accident, that these residual principles of civil liberty have come to blend and coalesce with a stubborn preconception of national integrity and national prestige.
In a word, the ancients as a class had no fear of time, and most of them had no religious or other preconception that limited their estimate as to the age of a nation or the exact age of the world itself.
His scepticism, however, was probably based rather upon a shrewd common-sense estimate of human affairs than upon any preconception as to the antiquity of man.
This is doubtless due to the preconception of the unity and homogeneity of the world, of which we have already made mention.
Seguin has in this case the preconception that geometric design must prepare for writing, and that hinders him from discovering the truly natural proceeding necessary to such preparation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preconception" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
