I. The interpretative factor in perception; its
relation to sense-deceptions 106
II. The rôle of the conjurer; the comprehension of
conjuring tricks dependent upon a knowledge of
technical detail; illustrations; conjuring
deceptions as imitations of the conditions of
real experience 111
III. The subjective factors in deception: suggestion,
expectation, misdirection of the attention; the
setting of a trick; illustrations 118
IV. The subjective attitude and prepossession as a
factor in deception; illustrated by the phenomena
of Spiritualism; experimental proof of the
influence of the belief-attitude; extreme instances
of prepossession 125