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Discover LudwigThe phrase "acted blind" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is pretending not to see or acknowledge something, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "Despite the evidence presented, he acted blind to the truth and continued to support the false narrative."
Alternatives: "turned a blind eye" or "ignored the obvious".
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"Companies have acted blind towards the systemic problem of child abuse images.
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She was the first actress to subtly and convincingly act blind on camera due to her near-sightedness, and Cherrill signed a contract on November 1 , 1928
Feel around a lot to see where you are, to act blind.
Yet those responsible for the NHS still refuse to act, blinded by their own delusional optimism, or perhaps wilful deception.
Ethics: If we've learned nothing else from paying for the party that Wall Street executives threw bundling up risky mortgage loans and selling them as securities, it's that when a small number of influential people act in blind self-interest, everyone suffers.
The reason for rejecting the claim that meaning something and presentation can enter a relation of fulfillment becomes obvious if one considers how Reinach qualifies meaning acts: being "blind," these acts simply cannot have intuitive content.
This was a highly symbolic act: blinding was the usual punishment usually meted out to heretics and rebels, or to deposed emperors and other political rivals to prevent them from becoming a threat.
So far, the substance known to block mosquitoes' powers of detection the best is DEET, which acts by blinding their senses.
Zeffirelli created an epic vision of Rome and Egypt, all seen through moving aluminum pipes that acted like glistening venetian blinds through which we both saw and imagined.
In the example case of hypnotic blindness, the subject would continue to see perfectly well, but would act like a blind person.
This approach to the intentionality of meaning acts, however, raises a question: if these acts are "blind" in the sense that the objects they refer to are intuitively absent, how does their intentionality work?
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