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In memory, as in perception and introspection, there is a process of preparation or preadjustment of mind, and here will be found room for what I had called active error.

From Illusions A Psychological Study by Sully, James

In the one case, we know that there is an erroneous preadjustment; and we can scarcely doubt that there is one in the other.

From The Philosophy of Style by Spencer, Herbert

A similar effect of intellectual preadjustment is observable in the fainter degrees of illusion produced by pictorial art.

From Illusions A Psychological Study by Sully, James