Plots, while often based on real experiences, incorporate strange, fantastic, and legendary elements, mythical peoples, speculative settings, and characters who, while plausible, could also be unreal, and combine the true, the imaginary, and the nonexistent in such a way that they are difficult to separate".
Thus, feigning or dissimulating leaves the reality principle intact: the difference is always clear, it is only masked; whereas simulation threatens the difference between "true" and "false", between "real" and "imaginary".
Mr. Baudrillard sees the obsession with virtual reality not as mere amusement, but as an attack on the basic distinctions between the "true" and the "false," the imaginary and the real.
Thus the "something more" that Russell could not help feeling was that his views about the badness of bullfighting were true and the views of the imaginary bull-fighting aficionados false.
After geometry optimization, frequency calculations of the reactant, transition, and intermediate states verified that the structures were true minima (no imaginary frequency) and transition states (one imaginary frequency) and gave zero-point energy corrections (Supplementary Table S2).
On this view, even fictional and imaginary entities had to be real in order to serve as truth-makers for true sentences such as "Unicorns have exactly one horn".
This is a well-chosen, arresting array of curiosities and marvels – a true imaginary museum.
With the Golden Boys and Imaginary Icons.
Fiction is at once real and imaginary.
The campaign is meant to mix actual and imaginary elements.
