"We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups, Dick said.
As a result, in reality, spurious deviations of the observed variant frequencies from the theoretical 50% at marker sites will occur due to different sources of experimental error.
Facts are fictions, spurious sentence-like slices of reality, "projected from true sentences for the sake of correspondence" (Quine 1987, p. 213; cf. Strawson 1950).
Hiding behind statistics or spurious list-making, we shy away from reality, afraid of the consequences of living life in any other way.
We believe that the null hypothesis of a single, homogeneous mutation probability throughout the protein does not reflect biological reality and will lead to spurious mutation clusters.
But it's nothing like as absurd as the fact that there's not a single world leader prepared to give more than the most spurious consideration to our imminent collision with ecological reality.
"Aesthetic self-understanding is indulging in escapism if it regards the encounter with the work of art as nothing but enchantment in the sense of liberation from the pressures of reality, through the enjoyment of a spurious freedom" (RB 130).
They became famous through the most spurious of means, such as leaked sex tapes and reality TV.
If an Obama presidency is going to mean anything it should mean a return to reality based decision making, not some kind of spurious process by which ideological and political decisions are made in the face of evidence.
In reality, a government dominated by the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) is using spurious religious/linguistic arguments to shore up its support among a majority Malay electorate, which has been fed for years with preferences and privileges.
