Sentence examples for illusion error from inspiring English sources

There is no radical illusion, error or mistake in color perception (only commonplace illusions): we perceive objects to have the colors that they really have.

The word itself is much older, however, going back at least to the 18th century, when the Swiss German mathematician and philosopher Johann Heinrich Lambert applied it to that part of his theory of knowledge that distinguishes truth from illusion and error.

Accordingly, the primary aim of the First Critique's Dialectic is to prevent our slide from illusion into error.

Merely appealing to these two modalities or applications of reason does not explain why the latter is justified in its pursuit and adoption of what is taken as illusion and error in the former.

Illusions and errors can serve positive functions.

The Transcendental Dialectic begins with a critique of reason's illusions and errors within the sphere of Rational Psychology.

There is an irresolvable contradiction between viewing religion naturalistically – as a human adaptation to living in the world – and condemning it as a tissue of error and illusion.

A recent paper by Michael Clemens of the Centre for Global Development and David McKenzie of the World Bank provides three possible answers.First, they write, the growth in remittances may actually be an illusion because of measurement error.

This argument frustrates neuroscientists such as Dennett and Pinker, who tend to argue that the experience of human consciousness - the "feeling of what happens" - is a kind of error or illusion, or an accidental byproduct of the brain-computer's operation.

But while he emphasizes the solidity of the empirical knowledge gained via the latter, reason often appears to be merely a source of error and illusion.

He begins by declaring his desire to reach certain knowledge, which he explains as "that in which what is known is laid bare in such a way as to leave no room for doubt, and is unaccompanied by the possibility of error or illusion, to the point that the mind cannot even conceive it".