Chapter XI: Illusions of Belief
Belief as Immediate or Intuitive, 294-296; simple and compound
Belief, 296.
A. _Simple Illusory Belief_:--
(1) Expectation: its nature, 297, 298; Is Expectation ever intuitive?
298; Expectation and Inference from the past, 299-301; Expectation
of new kinds of experience, 301, 302; Permanent Expectations
of remote events, 302; misrepresentation of future duration,
302-305; Imaginative transformation of future, 305-307.
(2) Quasi-Expectations: anticipation of extra-personal experiences,
307, 308; Retrospective Beliefs, 308-312.
B. _Compound Illusory Belief_:--
(1) Representations of permanent things: their structure, 312; our
representations of others as illusory, 312-315; our representation
of ourselves as illusory, 315; Illusion of self-esteem, 316-318;
genesis of illusory opinion of self, 318-322; Illusion in our
representations of classes of things, 322, 323; and in our views
of the world as a whole, 323, 324; tendency of belief towards
divergence, 325; and towards convergence, 326, 327.
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