The phrase "a certain illusion of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing perceptions or beliefs that may not align with reality, often in contexts related to psychology, art, or social commentary.
Example: "The film creates a certain illusion of happiness that masks the underlying struggles of the characters."
Alternatives: "a specific perception of" or "a particular semblance of".
Brewer (2008) offers a disjunctivist account of certain illusions that he thinks need not be treated as cases of partial hallucination (e.g., the Mueller-Lyer illusion).
But there is a certain amount of artful illusion to this impression.
In the case of certain illusions, when an object looks to be a certain way that it isn't, a disjunctivist might place emphasis on the idea that this misleading appearance is publicly observable; for instance, it might be the sort of thing one is able to photograph.
They are illusions of a certain type of art, the ready-made, that presents itself as an art without illusions.
It creates this illusion where only a certain type of person has the right to rent when in reality, our beautiful city is composed of a variety of individuals of varying economic and social means.
Accordingly, he identifies reason as the locus of certain principles and propensities, and certain "illusions," which cooperate with misapplications of concepts and principles to create the errors already exposed in the Transcendental Analytic.
The general public will be informed of the results through lay science articles in local and national newspapers with the specific aim of creating a better understanding of this infection and eliminating certain illusions about the 'flesh-eating bacteria'.
And so was this paradox: that certain illusions were necessary to maintain the equilibrium of their lives.
The show lets you see all of this close up, giving an immediate sense of the carpets as physical objects, with varied textures and hard-to-see woven subtleties, including baby-blue highlights that lend certain decorative motifs an illusion of 3-D depth.
Does it create an illusion of certain kinds of things?
