On this view, then, there are limits to the optimism of evolution: to apply the term "good" to that which manifests itself as the cosmic process in evolution is mere illusion.
For that the highest Self appears in those three states, is a mere illusion, not more substantial than the snake for which the rope is mistaken in the twilight.
That this antinomy is based upon a mere illusion, and that nature and freedom are at least not opposed--this was the only thing in our power to prove, and the question which it was our task to solve.
Persuasion is a mere illusion, the ground of the judgement, which lies solely in the subject, being regarded as objective.
If this were the sole alternative, "the good Bishop Berkeley [could] not be blamed for degrading bodies to mere illusion.
Kant urges that his doctrine of the ideality of space and time, so far from reducing objects to mere illusion, is the sole means of defending their genuine reality.
For had Berkeley taken account of time as well as of space, a similar argument, consistently developed in regard to time, would have constrained him to reduce the self to the level of mere illusion.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mere illusion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.