Sentence examples for mere projection from inspiring English sources

How could a mere projection overwhelm the fearful and fascinating female power on the runway: the warrior cages, like outer space armor, worn over flesh or skintight pants?

On some maps the tip of Maine seems to stick out farther north, but this is mere projection (Mercatorial rather than Freudian): the state's northernmost point, near Fort Kent, is a mere 47 degrees 27 minutes north.

If the history of religions does not surrender its neutrality since such a surrender would thereby reduce the discipline to anthropology in an ideological sense (e.g., religion understood as mere projection of the psyche or of societal conditions)—theology will recognize the history of religions as a science providing valuable material and as one of the sciences in the universe of sciences.

Yet while Lipps diagnoses the problem of the inference of analogy within the context of a Cartesian conception of the mind quite succinctly, he fails to explain how empathy is able to provide us with an epistemically sanctioned understanding of other minds or why our "feeling into" the other person's mind is more than a mere projection.

Modal conventionalists seek to explain the access to modal facts by denying their objective status: facts about what's possible are mere projections of our implicit semantic rules or psychological dispositions (e.g., Kant 1787; Carnap 1950; Sidelle 1989).

Since relations of reason are mere projections (or properties a thing has by virtue of the activity of some mind), we can conceive of them as accidents in a broad sense that is, as properties or features that a thing can both acquire and lose.

His best sledges, in this sense, often involved no words at all; he expressed his animating competitive fury via the mere physical projection of himself – the denseness and immovability of his body – on the field of play.

Our predilection for positive thinking could reflect an objective feature of our world (instead of being a mere anthropocentric projection of one style of thought).

Apparitions cannot be mere symbols, metaphors or projections: the characters, however warped, must experience them as hauntings, the reader on side.

Jack Straw is frank about the failures, particularly the official projection of a mere 13,000 net migrants a year from the new EU member states.

In case of a half zigzag, thus a mere zig, only the large projection of the ventral or dorsal side is exposed depending on whether the bird rolls left and back or right and back.