Sentence examples for a simple illusion from inspiring English sources
The magic of the installation relies on a simple illusion: the lamp is not a lamp, the shadows aren't shadows, and the vases certainly aren't vases.
(Board book; ages 3 and up) A fascination with simple illusion and movement pervades "Pinwheel," a novelty book that adults as well as children will find mesmerizing.
One has four corners and the other has none, but it's baffling to tell the difference between a circle and a square in this simple illusion created by Kokichi Sugihara of Japan's Meiji University.
The phenomenon could be the result of a simple optical illusion, an ambiguity, or it could be a more complex.
One possible explanation is that they suffer from a simple cognitive illusion when they think about how higher taxes would affect them.
The perceived height of a step can be manipulated using a simple visual illusion, leading to the adoption of a safer stepping strategy in terms of greater foot clearance over a step edge.
On the other hand, the impressive increase of the pCR rate in ER/PgR negative tumours with the weekly treatment could represent a simple 'optical illusion' if not followed by a substantial advantage in long-term disease-free survival of patients.
It is naïve to suppose that the points at issue between, for example, a Thomist and a Materialist can be settled by observation or even by experiment; the facts to which one might appeal in support of his theory may be seen in a very different light by the other, or perhaps be dismissed as simple illusion.
Like much of my visual work, it experiments with perception and simple illusion".
Even though these artists' work reminds us how susceptible our eyes are to simple illusions, it's a reminder so impressive that we're just fine with our vision getting tricked. .
