Sentences with phrase «as illusory»

In a nutshell, they're as illusory as the Escher hand that draws itself.

The belief that, by cutting ourselves off from the inherited ideas of our cultures, we can «clean the slate» and make a fresh start, is as illusory as the hope for a comprehensive system of theory that is capable of giving us timeless certainty and coherence....

These real scientists have also exposed as illusory the alarmists» mystical «tropical hot spot.»

Take a good painting of a landscape for example and that painting does not rely on its physical size to deliver its content as much as its illusory relationship, through rendering, suggestion or even evocation, to a known — external — reality.

He is not only the source of the monstrous but also, as an illusory and utopic creature, is an absolute factory of chimeras.

I know for certain that the final product I have in mind today is just as illusory as the fabricated excuses I give myself for why I don't start them.

Could the third star in DI Herculis turn out to be as illusory as Vulcan?

Religious beliefs that deny the reality of diseases, define evil as illusory, or encourage belief in superstitions decrease respect for reality.

Unable to fit these elusive expressions into an objectifying, scientific understanding of the world, we often dismiss them as illusory.

The result is unmistakable, however; the arithmetic relationship at with Bergson arrives here is presented by him not as illusory but as having an objective basis.

We are forced to make up our minds whether we will accept their testimony or reject it as illusory.

In the religiosity of Hellenistic culture there was a world - denying, gnostic kind of piety that scholars equate with the so - called «divine man» that was in its own way just as illusory and immature as the nationalist warrior piety of Palestinian Judaism.

And if we are moved by the assumption that what is clear and distinct is also the most concretely real, we will be inclined to suspect the whole realm of symbolic discourse as illusory, as moving us away from rather than toward the real world, precisely because symbolic expression is so frustratingly nebulous.

In the perceptual mode of presentational immediacy this process leads to the experience of the objective world as illusory.

As we have seen, the use of this solution intensifies the very problems to which it has served as an illusory answer.

They also see this theory as leading people to depreciate that actual events of the world viewing them as appearance and the appearance as illusory.

«No one has ever touched Zeno without refuting him,» he writes in a short essay commenting on the fundamental line of thought in his chief philosophical work, Process and Reality.16 In the same essay he explicitly distinguishes his theory from two other opposed positions: on the one hand from the view that interprets the character of becoming as illusory and becoming itself as simply empty and nonexistent in comparison with beings and their being.

The modern dream is just as illusory as the old, and decidedly more pestilent.

7 If a naturalistic criterion is presupposed in the definition of «evidence,» all else is dismissed as illusory.

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness.

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of men, is a demand for their real happiness.

The national bourgeoisie have been exposed as an illusory hope for development.

«Import growth captures both the «true» part of productivity growth (since increased capital investment typically requires an expanding current account deficit) as well as the illusory part of productivity growth (resulting from the failure to account for foreign labor input in the productivity numbers).

And, does it invite start - ups to fake it, using wives or girlfriends as the illusory heads of a companies that are actually run by their husbands or boyfriends?

Not exact matches

But as many keen dispensary owners found out — some after being raided by cops — that legal loophole they were hoping to exploit was illusory.

He was jailed just as the entire financial system came crashing down, revealing all those triple - A — rated securities to be as flimsy and illusory as anything Israel had sold.

Items from the modern cabinet of wonders, such as GPS and radar and mobile - phone technology and flight - tracker apps that let you follow planes from your pocket, hand us an illusory sense of control - a notion that we have, through gadgetry, rendered the world finite.

A federal appeals court signed off on the U.S. Interior Department's decision to take land into trust for a proposed Native American casino, rejecting arguments that the tribe's promises to mitigate environmental effects are «illusory» because as a sovereign Native American nation, it can not be sued to enforce them.

As a result, the coming years are likely to see a major pension crisis across both corporations and municipalities because the illusory front - loading of returns has encouraged profound underfunding.

Or, as the French Neo-Thomist Jacques Maritain put it nearly a decade later, «There is nothing more illusory than to pose the problem of the person and the common good in terms of opposition,» for in reality, it is «in the nature of things that man, as part of society, should be ordained to the common good.»

Religion as belief in God is an opium of the people diverting man's energies from the needful tasks of this world to an illusory heaven above; it is a projection of man's inner insecurities, and consequently must be annihilated if man must be fully himself.

Moreover, I regard the Incarnation as a historical movement and process; it does not reveal the illusory opposition between God and the world, but rather effects an actual reconciliation between estranged and alienated opposites, between an alien and transcendent form of God that is estranged from the world and a fallen and broken form of the world that is estranged from God.

Insofar as he is able to penetrate through the superficial and actually illusory levels of his existence, man finds himself to be in immediate touch with the holy.

The enlightened man is thus able to recognize «change» as a deficient mode of being and finally illusory.

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

Where such a reality (as spelt out in 1) does not exist, either practically or experienced as such by those living in an illusory construction of the present («our inviolable shores» ideology) the talk of peace tends to take on impractical («brotherhood and sisterhood of all humankind») and essentialized («the global village») colours.

Time - space existence, therefore, as the arena of man's contact with the divine, is not a deficient mode of being, it is not illusory.

Such passages as the following seem to suggest that the evidence Whitehead offers for believing that CE is a unique kind of perception and that it is not illusory, i.e., supplies the subject with (more or less) accurate information about its environment, is primarily a particular kind of «experience.»

To be sure, the illusory wants are wants in the sense that they do exist, but they are judged as not having measured up to whatever standard the speaker has in mind.

As one realizes what reality is, and sees the frantic and futile efforts people make to control it for the supposed interests of an illusory self, one is filled with compassion.

One of these is the desire to safeguard the student by demanding of the teacher an illusory objectivity, as if the teacher had no commitment to a certain field of knowledge, to a method of approaching this field, and to a set of attitudes and value assumptions which are embodied in the questions which he raises.

All immediacy, in spite of its illusory peace and tranquillity, is dread, and hence, quite consistently, it is dread of nothing; one can not make immediacy so anxious by the most horrifying description of the most dreadful something, as by a crafty, apparently casual half word about an unknown peril which is thrown out with the surely calculated aim of reflection; yea, one can put immediacy most in dread by slyly imputing to it knowledge of the matter referred to.

If this is true, then the identity politics around which much of the secular left has refashioned itself become as meaningless as the sense of self materialism suggests is illusory.

The immediate man (in so far as immediacy is to be found without any reflection) is merely soulishly determined, his self or he himself is a something included along with «the other» in the compass of the temporal and the worldly, and it has only an illusory appearance of possessing in it something eternal.

In fact, it judges such «illusory» thinking as a symptom of weakness which the stout of heart will shun.

The figure of Don Juan is an imaginative impossibility in our time because he comes from a period in which the human being was understood not merely as a biological machine, generated randomly out of the incessant flux of an aleatory universe, but as a radiant and terrible enigma, dangerously and daringly poised between beast and angel, hell and heaven, the elemental abyss and the infinite God: a period in which it was still just possible to believe that human freedom was not merely the all - but - illusory residue of a random confluence of mindless physical forces and organic mechanisms, but a glimpse of the transcendent within the world of matter.

We are apt to dismiss appearance as unimportant in contrast to reality, regarding it as largely illusory.

Insofar as CE is perception of past and therefore actual events, it is not necessarily illusory.

The fact that all macrocausation is to be regarded as supervenient, and thereby as epiphenomenal, Kim has insisted, does not mean that it is illusory or unreal.

Faced with these wonderful facts of human life (charity, beauty, etc), evolutionary reductivists default to subjectivity, assume that our impressions of value are illusory and see moral reasoning as a sophisticated mechanism to get what we really want (a free decoder ring to anyone who, without laughing, can explain my Petco experience in these terms).