This is not because of the supposedly good economic news of recent weeks, which risks being a short-term illusion, but because in foreign relations at least, Brexit could bring a long overdue clarity of purpose.
Thus, thinking in Darwinian terms, the illusion of an enlarged moon has survival value as it announces the best time to go fishing.
"Negative sentiment in the face of a stabilizing market is the perfect setup for a powerful rally," says Band, who advises that the best way to play this rally is to buy the S&P via Spiders, which trades on the American Stock Exchange, up to $86. Band believes the market could tack on a 20% gain through year's end, but he has no long-term bullish illusions.
An unhealthy fetish for GDP led policymakers to keep interest rates artificially low, and whilst this boosted consumption and investment in the short term, it was an illusion of growth.
But tea-party-driven success in the mid-terms could foster the illusion that the Republicans lost the White House because Mr McCain was insufficiently close to their base.
Short-term solutions are an illusion and time is not on his side in this game.
Pächt described the work in terms of an "interior illusion", noting the manner in which the viewer's eye falls across the nave, the crossing, but "only then, [is he] looking through and over the rood screen, the choir".
At least, both events yield the same illusion (in terms of magnitude, not sign) concerning the manipulations and dependent variables used in this study.
The period between these two ages matches that seen in behavioural studies when visual speech cues come to reliably influence auditory perception both in terms of the McGurk illusion and audio-visual advantage during speech-in-noise (e.g. Tremblay et al., 2007; Wightman et al., 2006).
His successful bid for a third term was a masterpiece of illusion.
