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Example sentences for "mere appearance"

  • There will be the phenomenon or appearance of objectiveness, but nature is then only a mere appearance, and there is nothing in reality which corresponds to our experimental perceptions.

  • We repeat that all this is a mere appearance.

  • They remain absolutely real as objects of thought, though as sensible existences they are reduced to the level of mere appearance.

  • It is, in one aspect, mere appearance; in another, it has at its foundation a transcendental object.

  • And all this is established by abstract logical reasoning professing to find self-contradictions in the categories condemned as mere appearance, and to leave no tenable alternative to the kind of Absolute which is finally affirmed to be real.

  • But succession remains none the less a mere appearance, as indeed does movement itself.

  • This self-consciousness alone can be regarded as essence and genuine reality, while everything else is reduced to mere environment and becomes matter of secondary importance, if not of mere appearance.

  • The world of sense is unreal, illusory, a mere appearance.

  • But if time is a mere appearance, this whole way of looking at things must be wrong.

  • It is mere appearance, illusion, an outward show and sham, a hollow mask which hides the real being of things.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dear cousin; deep dish; ever ready; inch pots; mere animal; mere coincidence; mere girl; mere human; mere idea; mere illusion; mere matter; mere means; mere natural; mere nothing; mere variety; merely human; merely natural; merely said; merely the; one man; plumb line; prolific writer; settlement work; the book; want some; well defined