"pervasive illusion" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a widespread or all-encompassing false belief or misconception. Example: The idea that money can buy happiness is a pervasive illusion in our society, perpetuated by the media and consumer culture.
I began researching this book in 2006, when there was a lot of optimism and excitement in the field, in spite of the pervasive illusion that Google puts a librarian in everyone's computer.
But if so, they need to explain how a practice based on a pervasive illusion can be as successful as modern science.
"It creates this pervasive illusion that the only options you have are those that they're holding out," Atif says at the top of episode two.
First, because Invert's color vision is as useful as Nonvert's for discriminating and identifying objects, surely it would be arbitrary to suppose that Invert's color vision, but not Nonvert's, is the source of pervasive illusions.
It would seem that the illusion is pervasive because of the mechanism of identification of earlier/later stages.
Treating the college president as a minor potentate is dangerous, but the illusion is pervasive and often carefully cultivated starting with the search process that treats finding the president as something akin to the Holy Grail.
SHAD, introduced in PerCom 2007, is the first architecture that offers actual Single Sign-On to avoid authentication obtrusiveness and maintain the illusion of a single, pervasive computer.
The pervasive Christianization of the Jewish Jesus in classical artworks fed the illusion that Jesus was of a different religion and ethnicity than the others -- the Jews -- when in fact they were all Semites of the same Jewish faith.
Mr Halliday steers an informed path between the myth of pervasive external control, trumpeted in fundamentalist rhetoric and anti-imperialist literature, and the illusion of a ring-fenced Middle Eastern independence.
Scale invariance is a pervasive property of human vision, and holds for positional acuities [14], [15], visual illusions [16], [17] and texture discrimination [18] [21], in addition to the angular judgments examined here.
One pervasive and traditional problem, sometimes called "the Problem of Perception", is created by the phenomena of perceptual illusion and hallucination: if these kinds of error are possible, how can perception be what we ordinarily understand it to be, an openness to and awareness of the world?
