Sentence examples for illusion of knowledge from inspiring English sources

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He didn't have that illusion of knowledge.

We have a problem in American politics: an illusion of knowledge that leads to extremism.

OFSTED's inspections only give the public the illusion of knowledge about our schools.

Art historians have dubbed the painter "The Master of the Baroncelli portraits," a denomination that gives a comforting illusion of knowledge.

Byrne's onslaught of pseudoscientific jargon serves mostly to establish an "illusion of knowledge," as social scientists call our tendency to believe we understand something much better than we really do.

There is also an important meta-lesson embedded here: namely, that the key to a lot of skills (like being popular or getting into college) is simply to fake them, and that the illusion of knowledge is often more important (and certainly easier to acquire) than knowledge itself.

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However we take cookbooks — grammatically or encyclopedically, as storehouses of craft or illusions of knowledge — one can't read them in bed for many years without feeling that there is a conspiracy between readers and writers to obscure the ultimate point.

I'm motivated by the illusion of immanent knowledge.

Big words like 'Salafist totalitarianism' and 'Islamo-fascism' certainly help project the illusion of profound knowledge.

Internet searches give people the illusion of personal knowledge even when they haven't actually gained any, according to research published this week in the Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Throughout the first show, Barry and Stuart are playing with ideas of knowledge and illusion – but for those who want to peek behind the curtain, the second part offers a unique opportunity, though the idea of it does feel a bit sacrilegious.

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