Literally, that which is seen; hence, form, image, model of any thing in the mind; that which is held or comprehended by the understanding or intellectual faculties. I have used the idea, to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be...
It enables you to crystalize into ideas what were mere phantasms of the brain, to arrange your thoughts in their proper order, and to condense or expand details with a ready comprehension of the effect of such alterations upon the general proportions of the story. It makes your purposed ...
These being sure signs that the corpse was possessed by a vampire, the local bailie was fetched and the usual proceedings for the expulsion of the undesirable phantasm began. A stake, sharply pointed at one end, was handed to the bailie, who, raising it above his head, drove it with all...
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...Aladdin's palace of pure fanciful Epicurean phantasms, an imaginary world of imaginary atoms, fortuitously concurring out of void chaos into an orderly universe, as though by miracle. It is not thus that systems arise whichregeneratethe thought of humanity; he who would build for all time...
phantasm a vision or other perception of something that has no physical or objective reality, as a ghost or other supernatural apparition. Alsophantasma. See alsoimages;philosophy. See also:Perception a vision or other perception of something that has no physical or objective reality, especially in...
phantasm (ˈfæntæzəm) n 1.a phantom 2.an illusory perception of an object, person, etc 3.(Philosophy) (in the philosophy of Plato) objective reality as distorted by perception [C13: from Old Frenchfantasme,from Latinphantasma,from Greek; related to Greekphantazeinto cause to be...
phantasm a vision or other perception of something that has no physical or objective reality, as a ghost or other supernatural apparition. Alsophantasma. See alsoimages;philosophy. See also:Perception a vision or other perception of something that has no physical or objective reality, especially in...
3.In Platonic philosophy, objective reality as perceived and distorted by the five senses. [Middle Englishfantasme, from Old French, from Latinphantasma, from Greek, fromphantazein,to make visible, fromphantos,visible, fromphainein,to show; seebhā-inIndo-European roots.] ...
3.In Platonic philosophy, objective reality as perceived and distorted by the five senses. [Middle Englishfantasme, from Old French, from Latinphantasma, from Greek, fromphantazein,to make visible, fromphantos,visible, fromphainein,to show; seebhā-inIndo-European roots.] ...