But James gave Royce's idealism a pragmatic twist by pushing Royce to ask not what the source of thought is — the old bogeyman of epistemology — but what purpose thought serves. (firstthings.com)
• Dead tree as bogeyman — limbs outstretched, shrouded in Spanish moss signaling a fatal turn - off in The Gingerbread Man... (parallax-view.org)
It's just become a kind of bogeyman for people. (climateone.org)