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1860 J. D. Morell tr. I. H. Fichte Contrib. Mental Philos. vi. 102 In this way, Lotze considers that those local signs are generated, according to which the continuous impressions are moulded into an extended image.

1874 J. Sully Sensation & Intuition 70 What this difference of local sign (Localzeichen) really is, we cannot, in the nature of the case, hope to discover, since, ex hypothesi, long before the mind is able to inquire into its character, it is buried deep under associations derived from the eye itself and from the other organs.

1884 B. Bosanquet et al. tr. H. Lotze Metaphysic 490 If the local signs π κ ρ merely differ generally in quality, it is true that they would suffice to prevent three perfectly similar stimuli from coalescing, and to make them appear as three instances of the same felt content.

1907 Univ. Stud. Apr. 19 An object is represented as a thing that will excite a local sign upon the toe.

1984 W. R. Woodward in J. Brožek Explor. Hist. Psychol. U.S. 153 This doctrine, derived by Wilhelm Wundt from the local sign theory of spatial perception, stated that feelings of ocular movement provide an index of location in three dimensions.

2008 Pluralist 3 66 Lotze's famous theory of local signs, by which he explains spatial perception, closely parallels his theory of aesthetic and moral perception.