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Discover LudwigThe phrase "merely apparent" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it when something appears to be true or to have a certain quality, but you are not certain or convinced that it is actually true or that it has that quality. For example, "The rise in profits this quarter was merely apparent, as it was only due to one-time sales."
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Some of them were merely apparent, rooted in traditions that were relatively unfamiliar to a 1913 Paris audience.
Actually, the movie's very subject is in these merely apparent gaps, the explanations for which become utterly logical at the time that they become logical for the characters.
A fatal problem with transcendental arguments, however, is that they are vulnerable to objections based on denying the reality of what the theory purports to explain: the laws do claim authority, but perhaps that authority is merely apparent, simply unreal.
Mr Caplan's example posits a difference between a "true" net benefit of having a child out-of-wedlock, and the merely apparent net benefit perceived by an immature teenage girl.
To answer these questions, another description of metaphysics has been proposed: that it is the science that seeks to define what is ultimately real as opposed to what is merely apparent.
Most apparent counter examples are merely apparent.
On this interpretation, the conflict described above is merely apparent.
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I'm glad he did so, because the idea hints at vistas far wider than merely the apparent vanity of claiming to be a "better" or "truer" fan.
Therefore, the affinity (Kd,q) and concentration (Qtot) from these calculations should be regarded merely as apparent parameters.
But the apparent contradiction may arise merely from how the researchers view their crystal-like structure, others say.
Among extant cats, bite forces normalised for body size show absolutely no relationship with skull shape (Fig 3A,B); modern cats have uniformly high bite forces irrespective of body size and apparent, but merely size-related differences in skull shape.
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