The phrase "false needs" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to desires or wants that are not necessary or genuine. Example: Advertising often creates false needs for products that we don't really need, but are convinced to buy because of clever marketing tactics.
Hoskins doesn't look to blame consumers of cheap, fast fashion; rather the commodified market that's creating false needs and desires.
Its bible was Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man, one of the first explorations of the culture of consumerism — totalitarian in its way, Marcuse wrote — that the major corporations had created, generating false needs that we compulsively satisfied.
The German sociologist, disillusioned by the sexually omnivorous 1960s, came to believe that liberated sexual desires had been co-opted to serve capitalism; advertisers had figured out how to exploit libidinal urges to inspire "false needs".
In fact, Bartky suggests that it is not merely error that is involved, but deception, since "false needs" or deformed desires are "produced through indoctrination, psychological manipulation, and the denial of autonomy" (Bartky 1990a, 42).
Bartky describes repressive satisfactions as those that "fasten us to the established order of domination, for the same system which produces false needs also controls the conditions under which such needs can be satisfied" (Bartky 1990a, 42).
Ads create false needs or desires.
However, Gassendi mistakenly takes increases in velocity and in distances to be equivalent, leading him to manufacture a false need for greater velocity attained than what would be produced by the attractive forces alone.
But the common core thought is the following: even though the Liar is a sentence such that, if it were true, it would be false, and vice versa, no explicit contradiction according to which it is both true and false need follow.
Fundamentalism is founded in ignorance -- in the false need for feeling I've got the final word.
Talk of those things, don't make up a false interest in an equally false need for public or extraordinary investigation just to get votes.
We have been using chemical weapons on our own children -- and ourselves -- for decades, the chemical weapons we use in agriculture to win the war on pests, weeds, and the false need for ever greater yields.
