Sentence examples for illusory appearance from inspiring English sources

What kinds of cultural processes were involved in the production of such hierarchies, and how had they achieved the illusory appearance of being natural or given?

In the Advaita Vedanta school of Indian philosophy, particularly as expounded by Shankara, the finite phenomenal world is regarded as an illusory appearance (maya) of the one eternal unchanging reality (Brahman).

Bright with hard frost and brief sun, the midwinter spring was its own season, offering an illusory appearance of blossom and bloom in the dark time of the year.

Just as cataracts give rise to illusory appearances, so ignorance, according to Sakya, gives rise to all conventional truths; wisdom, on the other hand, gives rise to ultimate truth.

When the author Kennedy Fraser took over this magazine's "Feminine Fashions" column in 1970, she brought to it a near-philosophical stance vis-à-vis the illusory nature of appearance.

At the same time, Smith is after something bigger in this novel — the illusory nature of appearance itself.

The less illusory it appears.

The film, which is very much engaged with reflections of reality and the illusory nature of appearances, begins with an elegantly sustained shot of a wintry landscape, seen through the window of a moving train.

Another aspect of this integrated approach to optics was a reliance on internal perceptual phenomena to account for external phenomena regarding appearances, illusory or otherwise.

When, however, appearances are incompatible an oar in water looks broken but feels straight to the touch it must be admitted, if one is to have a coherent picture of reality, that some appearances are illusory and may lead to error regarding the real.

The similar appearance of an illusory Craik-O'Brien-Cornsweet -surface and a real luminance ("step") surface has been suggested to imply that also real extended surfaces are in a sense illusory — that only the borders are processed and the representation of the middle of the surface is based on interpolation or "filling-in" rather than direct sensory input.