Sentence examples for illusory belief from inspiring English sources

As a sculptor, Kiefer also fights against our illusory belief that we live in the present moment.

It is no small irony that individuals whose financial success has fostered an illusory belief in their own autonomy are, in their day-to-day lives, highly dependent on the contributions of many others.

Such statements can be read as being meant to debunk a widespread illusory belief in the existence of musical works; they also hold open the possibility of imagining works without believing in their existence, in which case the putative illusion is not necessary.

On illusory beliefs concerning conscious experience, see Dennett (1988).

We have stressed that those are illusory beliefs considering that their narratives also contain accounts of being threatened and ransacked in the hospital.

In my book, Trauma and Human Existence, I characterized the essence of emotional trauma as a shattering of what I call the absolutisms of everyday life -- the illusory beliefs that allow us to experience the world as stable, predictable, and safe.

In my work over the last two decades attempting to grasp the nature of emotional trauma (RD Stolorow, Trauma and Human Existence, Routledge, 2007), I have concluded that its essence lies in the shattering of what I call the absolutisms of everyday life, the system of illusory beliefs that allow us to function in the world, experienced as stable and predictable.

In particular, some patients who exhibited a high need for control were not passive recipients of information but actively shaped information and undertook strategies to support positive illusory beliefs.

This finding is in concordance with previous findings that even illusory positive beliefs of women with breast cancer about their disease and their ability to control disease were associated with positive mental health but independent of the objective medical evidence (Taylor et al, 1984).

Consider the possibility that aliens have taken me to the planet Crouton, removed my hands, and attached my brain to elaborate machinery that creates illusory experiences and beliefs just like the ones I have right now.

Although religious and governmental institutions can inhibit legal rights, true liberation can be achieved by releasing ourselves from the illusory shackles of the beliefs that our sexual orienation is an affliction.