Sentences with phrase «things as an illusion»

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As home of Harry Houdini, Appleton has since become host to all things magic and illusion, including the annual Houdini Days Magic Festival.

By realism I mean two things: first, seeing the facts as they are and grasping them thoroughly, without evasion or illusion, without recoiling in fear or horror as it becomes evident what the result of some trend is likely to be.

In this way the ontological argument, by drawing out the presupposition of metaphysical understanding, indicates that the choice before us is between holding that there is a God and that «reality» makes sense in some metaphysical manner, whether or not we can ever grasp what that sense is, and holding that there is no God and that any apparent metaphysical understanding of reality can only be an illusion which does not significantly correspond to the ultimate nature of things — unless this «nihilism» be regarded as a kind of metaphysical understanding instead of its blank negation.

Sadly, her illusion about the Catholic Church and critical thinking will shatter as well: «The great thing about a lot of the atheist and skeptic community is that people talk more critically about ideas and want to see proof provided,» Libresco said.

There is no such thing as free will, only the illusion of free will.

Such a man is living under an illusion because he is out of touch with «things as they are» in human existence.

But you see, I don't expect bad things to happen to me as created by other Chrisitans, but I have no illusions or rose - colored glasses on — Satan is alive and well and will use people within the church system to kill and destroy — My faith is NOT in the church system, but in Christ who set up the church as HIS Body by calling saved, but flawed people into it.

But you see, I donâ $ ™ t expect bad things to happen to me as created by other Chrisitans, but I have no illusions or rose - colored glasses onâ $ «Satan is alive and well and will use people within the church system to kill and destroyâ $ «My faith is NOT in the church system, but in Christ who set up the church as HIS Body by calling saved, but flawed people into it.»

Furthermore, there was no school of thought in China that would have presented a substantialist alternative to the view of being as change; the closest candidate would be the common - sense view of things attacked by the Buddhists as illusion, and even here it was the Indian, not Chinese, sources of Buddhism that became most exercised about criticizing the theory of permanent substances.

I totally understand why you are feeling bitter but to call a spade a spade, this is a proffesional game and things like a club being a «family» or «loyal» is an illusion that has been fixed in our brains as fans coz it entertains us and they get money from it — it is just like showbiz.

Since graduation, I have felt the illusion of time being paused, as I am in - between «the last thing I did» and «what's next.»

As the illusion persists the temperature of the hidden hand drops, indicating that the body is «forgetting» about that hand and adopting the rubber hand as the real thinAs the illusion persists the temperature of the hidden hand drops, indicating that the body is «forgetting» about that hand and adopting the rubber hand as the real thinas the real thing.

Consciousness is precisely the only thing that is just as real if it's an illusion.

Relying upon the language of the field is often too difficult an affectation to escape, as is falling prey to the manipulative mechanics; indeed, depictions of all things illusion - oriented are frequently guilty of styling their content and construction with an ample use of both.

Like Carell, she is convincing in the tennis scenes — augmented by special effects, both actors create the illusion of playing at a high level — but, more importantly, she captures the fighting spirit of King, who, as the movie opens, is beginning to realize that she can be true to herself only if she does two things.

Costner has never stricken me, at least with his own projects, as the slightest bit condescending, his gift the reality or illusion that America's favourite simpleton is learning things at the same pace as his screenplays.

«I hope that this exhibit is not just about making noise but about making things better, to see hunger as it is — without any illusion.

Making things even more awkward, the optical illusion is reinforced as the sliding door channel abruptly ends in the same spot.

But, as we will discuss in today's lesson, that feeling is simply an illusion that stems from focusing on the wrong things.

You can see other players scooting about doing their thing, and you can watch them for tips — a good idea, awkwardly executed, as lag makes them pop around and generally spoils the illusion.

But where color areas stack up and illusions of translucency develop, we have to imagine Wilson adapting as he sees how things go.

The illusion of things in space, as you put it — is something that I am less interested in finding in recent work.

Over the coming decades, he continued to challenge the boundaries of aesthetic space, creating paintings that presented three - dimensional reality as a tactile, objective thing rather than an illusion.

As it is of the nature of paintings to be flat objects with canvas surfaces onto which colored pigment is applied, such things as figuration, 3 - D perspective illusion and references to external subject matter were all found to be extraneous to the essence of painting, and ought to be removeAs it is of the nature of paintings to be flat objects with canvas surfaces onto which colored pigment is applied, such things as figuration, 3 - D perspective illusion and references to external subject matter were all found to be extraneous to the essence of painting, and ought to be removeas figuration, 3 - D perspective illusion and references to external subject matter were all found to be extraneous to the essence of painting, and ought to be removed.

The French theorist's obsession with things and their absence, reality and its disappearance into illusion, set the stage for much of the appropriation art of the 1980s, which is today acknowledged as one celebrated mode in contemporary artistic practice.

As others have said, attempts at reducing painting down to one essential thing — be it flatness, illusion or anti-illusion, or color — tend to fall flat in front of the paintings themselves.

, Pope.L has reworked this conundrum by making his sly work behave as if it were both a kinetic, unraveling art work and a living, decomposing thing, as well as a Hollywood - worthy spectacle bordering on — yes — illusion.

We apparently are really into installations that give the illusion of things being tied up, as we covered Alex Chinneck's new «pole tied installation» on the site today.

The gallery context, our physical presence, our training as viewers, and perhaps also (though not necessarily) our knowledge of his work's refutation of the critical divide between what Sandback called «fact and illusion» — all condition us to sense, just beyond our grasp, the notion that nothing and everything might, impossibly, be the same thing.

As for aerosols, you seem to be under the illusion that the only thing that matters is volcanic events, and even then only that they happen.

As a layman looking overall at the AGW picture, I've come to realise how clever the elements of scientific fraud are inbuilt into this «science» The biggest thing for jo public to get its head around is that the atmosphere dosn't act as a blanket if there was no water in it despite the compelling illusion that cloud cover at night keeps heat iAs a layman looking overall at the AGW picture, I've come to realise how clever the elements of scientific fraud are inbuilt into this «science» The biggest thing for jo public to get its head around is that the atmosphere dosn't act as a blanket if there was no water in it despite the compelling illusion that cloud cover at night keeps heat ias a blanket if there was no water in it despite the compelling illusion that cloud cover at night keeps heat in.

And as systems get better, aided by improvements in computing that often misleadingly go by the name of artificial intelligence, this will improve, but I wonder what is lost when systems create an illusion of ease around things that are actually quite complicated.

As home of Harry Houdini, Appleton has since become host to all things magic and illusion, including the annual Houdini Days Magic Festival.

They are guided by the illusion of love forever, instead of being realistic and understanding that there is no such thing as love forever!

Third, don't forget that you may be blinded by positive illusions in your relationships (meaning, you may see your date as more awesome than they actually are, 6 which is not necessarily a bad thing).

It's more commonly known as the «frequency illusion,» as coined by Arnold Zwicky to describe the syndrome in which a concept or thing you just found out about suddenly seems to crop up everywhere.