Sweeney ruled that, while Huhne "falsely pretended over a long period, until his eventual plea of guilty, that he was innocent", it was not "just and reasonable" to order him to pay the costs of investigating Briscoe.
Many late 20th century philosophers held, in effect, that 'imagine' is a polysemous verb, used to mean different, sometimes quite unrelated, things on different occasions: visualize, think creatively, believe falsely, suppose, pretend, and so on (e.g.: Flew, 1953; Strawson, 1971; Gross, 1973; Dix, 1985; Newton, 1989; Sparshott, 1990; Walton, 1990; Stevenson, 2003).
This is not the anonymity we all sometimes seek when online; sock puppetry is about setting up a false identity so the puppeteer can speak falsely while pretending to be another person.
"This is not Allegory House," declares Dorothy, protesting that his institution peddles a metaphoric, falsely reassuring "pretend England" – "Country houses are window-dressing.
"Its government subsequently pretended, falsely, that its citizens were not targeted".
"Bonnie and Clyde" is not a serious melodrama involving us in the plight of the innocent but a movie that assumes — as William Wellman did in 1931 when he made "The Public Enemy," with James Cagney as a smart, cocky, mean little crook — that we don't need to pretend we're interested only in the falsely accused, as if real criminals had no connection with us.
We cannot pretend to only have inherited its riches; we cannot turn our backs on the kinfolk who made our existence here possible just because we falsely believe their concerns to not include us.
Are they pretend pretend pirates?
