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It can be used to mean an attitude or behavior that is not completely genuine, as in the sentence, "He maintained a pretense of friendliness, although he didn't really care about her."
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Pretense
noun
A false or hypocritical profession, as, under pretense of friendliness.
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It's rock'n'roll the way it was meant to be played, not with boogie or pretense, but just straight freshness and intense energy.
JAMES SUROWIECKI is complaining about the deadweight loss of Christmas:An economist might suggest that the solution is to abandon the pretense and simply start exchanging small piles of money.
But the results in Nevada confirm again: this is a Barack-Hillary fight that will run at least through February 5th, and the voters are making Mr Edwards's pretense look increasingly more pathetic.
That kind of mandatory pretense engenders cynicism both on the part of police and on the part of the citizens they deal with.If Arizonans want to press public servants to be much more aggressive in determining immigration status, they can do one of two things.
Finally, that pretense is dropped, but others remain.
Starting on December 8th, they may use the pretense of a Washington economic conference to launch a second lame-duck session of Congress.
For the view that the pretense theory is compatible with a theory of fictional objects as real objects, see Zalta 2000.
So long as we engage in the pretense of a story, however, there is no special need for it.
From this vantage point, it might be argued that Russell's "logical atomism" can be understood as first and foremost a commitment to analysis as a method coupled with a rejection of idealistic monism, rather than a pretense to have discovered the genuine metaphysical "atoms" making up the world of facts, or even the belief that such a discovery is possible (cf. Linsky 2003).
He preserved the dialogical form even in those of his late works where Socrates is replaced by a stand-in and the didactic nature of the presentations is hard to reconcile with the pretense of dialogue.
Here I am, in effect, using a pretense to convey information about the real world.
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