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Definition of Phantasms
1. phantasm [n] - See also: phantasm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phantasms
Literary usage of Phantasms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research by Society for Psychical Research, Edmund Gurney (1894)
"phantasms OF THE DEAD. la the present Chapter we propose first to compare recognised
phantasms of dead persons with other phantasms, and secondly to ..."
2. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1845)
"the stronger deprives us of the sense of other phantasms, as the sun ... —in men
waking the phantasms of things past are more obscure than of things present ..."
3. The Law of Psychic Phenomena: A Working Hypothesis for the Systematic Study by Thomson Jay Hudson (1896)
"phantasms OF THE DEAD. Ghosts. — Scientific Investigations. ... Power to create
phantasms demonstrated. — Investigations of the London Society for Psychical ..."
4. The Law of Psychic Phenomena: A Working Hypothesis for the Systematic Study by Thomson Jay Hudson (1908)
"phantasms OF THE DEAD. Ghosts. — Scientific Investigations. ... Power to create
phantasms demonstrated. — Investigations of the London Society for Psychical ..."
5. The Origin of Ideas by Antonio Rosmini (1883)
"The species (idea) which is produced by the acting intellect does not, then,
represent the phantasms, the similitudes, or effects of things ; it represents ..."
6. The Origin of Ideas by Antonio Rosmini (1883)
"The species (idea) which is produced by the acting intellect does not, then,
represent the phantasms, the similitudes, or effects of things ; it represents ..."
7. Your Psychic Powers and how to Develop Them by Hereward Carrington (1920)
"phantasms OF THE DEAD One theory of these apparitions (seen after the death of
the person they represent) is that they embody the thought of the dead person ..."
8. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"For when there are phantasms of several kinds at the same time in the soul, or
such as arise from different motions of the spirits, the soul silently ..."
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