Sentence examples for illusions of knowledge from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

The illusion of knowledge about the future clearly verges on ideology.

The scientific community's hunt for knowledge easily leads to an illusion of knowledge about the future.

Deduction is not an option, as it would create an illusion of knowledge by a linear extrapolation of the past.

Confronted with the fact that (multiple) prognoses only create an illusion of knowledge instead of scientific knowledge, scientists might answer that they are using the best instruments available.