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Example sentences for "mere illusion"

  • 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.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    agreed boundaries; but surely; central cavity; fine style; her country; hold the; looked more; make over; mere accident; mere animal; mere coincidence; mere force; mere form; mere girl; mere handful; mere matter; mere means; mere nature; mere negation; mere physical; mere variety; merely nominal; merely wished; similar reason; when some; you couldn