Sentences with phrase «from illusory»

I guess Fitzpatrick hit a nerve when he alluded to dedicated apologizers of global warming alarmism may be showing the The Dunning — Kruger effect... a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average.

Wikipedia summarises the effect as «a cognitive bias in which the unskilled suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average».

His artistic style soon moved away from illusory media and embraced constructions in which materiality was central to the work.

Sascha Braunig makes spooky, neo-Surrealistic portraits of imaginary people from illusory tubular elements and geometric patterns.

In the gallery space, the images acquire a new virtual aspect from the illusory dimensionality afforded by the lenticular printing process.

His early expression came in the form of paintings, however, his artistic style soon moved away from illusory media and he embraced constructions in which materiality was central to the work.

[6] His artistic style soon moved away from illusory media and embraced constructions in which materiality was central to the work.

Apart from the evident holographic nature of the piece, apart from the illusory scientific quality, the work of Eric Lei...

Now the claim that all indie / self published authors are «unskilled individuals who suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate» is a little strong and very much out of line.

That would also categorize me as one of the «unskilled individuals who suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate.

Indie authors are «unskilled individuals that suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate.

Pope Emeritus Benedict repeatedly reminded his listeners that the church's Hellenic philosophical impetus can not be sliced off from an illusory pristine Gospel.

A driven lifestyle stemming from this illusory hope reaches a point of diminished or negative returns in the mid-years.

Alfonse here is suffering from the «Dunning — Kruger» effect which is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate.

Earlier, Altizer was advocating a leap of faith to the sacred from illusory being; but now he says that the Kingdom of God «will never dawn in us if we refuse our existence in the here and now.»

Not exact matches

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.

Each section of David and Goliath begins with a passage from Scripture attesting to the ennobling power of weakness or the illusory boon of strength.

Her new majority will provide an opportunity for her government pursue its fever dream of enormous liquid natural gas revenues that will miraculously banish all debt and deficit from the province, a dream that is more than likely to turn into a nightmare of environmental damage and business losses well before the longed for and probably illusory No More Debt Day arrives.

«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).

Whatever rabbit Bernanke can still yank from his hat of monetary tricks is illusory — the best QE3 can achieve is the mirage of «wealth effects», the artificial high that is closer to momentary intoxication than to stable contentment.

For example, the Protestant doctrine that we are all sinners is reflected in the Freudian - Marxist behaviorist - positivist claptrap claiming that there is no virtue, that all our actions arise from dark psychic urges, exploitative class greed or biological impulses — which supposedly proves that talk about good and evil, right and wrong, and certainly saintliness is illusory.

In a world from which freedom of competition, equality of opportunity, and social fraternity begin to disappear, political equality is illusory, and democracy becomes a dream.

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.

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.

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.

Confidence in the emergence of a new world culture to perform the function of supplying Protestants with the same kind of unity which they once derived from Western European culture is a vain and illusory hope.

More precisely, how can we tell from vague data that definite data are illusory, or from illusions what vague data contain?

«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.

He began to struggle for his OWN survival, at the expense of his neighbor, even if this survival could be only temporary (and therefore illusory), since «death reigned from Adam to Moses, even upon those who did not sin as Adam did» (Rom.

The other, since he evades purification and lives with illusory pleasures, making the illness difficult to cure, is estranged from the natural, lives a life contrary to nature and becomes a nonparticipant in this natural life which is communion with God.

Insisting on the imaginative factor in the projection of sense — objects in no way implies that they are illusory — a consideration that everyday life gainsays, since often fatal material consequences ensue from representing things wrongly.

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.

Of course, from the intellectual point of view it is possible to construct such a system, but it would be totally inapplicable, therefore totally meaningless: it would foster the illusory belief that «we have the remedy but nobody will buy it.»

On the social level the contemplative easily intuits the roots of war: fear of self and others that springs from inability to trust God; the unrecognized self - hatred that we project onto others; the illusory view that our political ideals are purer than our opponents», and the accompanying moral paralysis that stems from an exaggerated sense of guilt about holding this illusion.

«In the indeterminate and apparent freedom of an existence in which everything was possible but nothing made sense, he was enslaved by an illusory image of freedom: banished from his true self and unfree in an utter lack of relationship that was founded on being distanced from his own self, on separation from the truth of his own self.»

They created an illusory prosperity, which only they really benefited from anyway, and then expressed bewilderment when it all crashed down around them.

Seeing an object at the same time that you hear sound coming from somewhere else can lead to the «ventriloquist illusion» and its aftereffect, but research suggests that simply imagining the object produces the same illusory results.

Yet this is not always true, as you will see from d. Notice the vertical illusory strip running through the parallel horizontal lines.

The current FedEx logo was shortened from the earlier company name Federal Express and given a new snazzy illusory design element, the background arrow between the «E» and the «x.» Did the company shorten the name to reduce the amount of paint needed for signage on its planes and trucks?

Twelve years ago, about a dozen research groups from around the world announced that they had evidence for a lighter pentaquark known as theta - plus, but more detailed studies showed that all of the claims were illusory.

A small section of a display such as c is insufficient to generate noticeable motion, although the massively parallel signals from the highly repetitive patterns together produce strong illusory motion.

To induce an illusory perception of the material properties of the hand, a group of neuroscientists from Bielefeld University, the Max - Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (Germany), and the University of Milano - Bicocca (Italy) asked volunteers to sit with their hands lying on a table in front of them.

The authors observe that illusory pattern perception «may not be entirely maladaptive» if by soothing uncertainty and restoring a sense of control, it encourages us to actively confront unpredictable circumstances rather than withdrawing from them.

But the experiments of Ramachandran (and very similar results from psychologist Lloyd Kaufman of New York University) showed that the mechanism was even more sophisticated than that; it could segment the image based on implied occlusion and «hallucinate» illusory contours that can serve as tokens for stereoscopic matching.

Cells signaling disparity are in V1 (as shown by Pettigrew), but cells that extract illusory contours (from implied occlusion) are extracted in area V2, the next stage up, as shown by Rudiger von der Heydt of Johns Hopkins University.

The photograph, taken from a scene in which the trajectory of both characters» happiness have the illusory quality of peaking, is representative of an unofficial Baumbach trilogy.

With little scholarship on Argento that's current and / or comprehensive, and with the director himself seldom asked about his steep decline, what's left is this notion that Argento wanted to escape the Hitchcock - derivative label (only to return to it after the spark had fled or, more likely, proved illusory all along), or that he wanted a psychic divorce from De Palma, whose career Argento's paralleled for a while in theme and execution.

Aside from the aforementioned instances of blatant depth manipulation, Walsh keenly seizes the more pragmatic uses of the illusory optics, in the form of interior staging, with tables and bottles and barrels serving as prominent parts of a scene's foreground design, and in a wonderfully mounted gunfight, shooting through doors, windows, and fences.

Results from the General Certificate of Secondary Education exam that students take at age 16 show improvement each year, but there is a general recognition that grade inflation makes the progress illusory.