Sentence examples for unreal objects from inspiring English sources

In the cave people see only unreal objects, shadows, or images.

But Brentano and Husserl's shifting position on the nature of retentions – recall the appeals to unreal objects, judgements, primitive phenomenal features, additional dimensions, temporal modes of presentation and the like – is indicative of the difficulty of finding the right balance here, or so might purveyors of alternative forms of realism allege.

Second, the cognitive processes associated with the sense faculties that are impaired by the extraneous causes of misperception grasp conventionally unreal objects, and because this kind of object does not meet the realistic mundane ontological standard, they are thus conventionally unreal.

Just as illusion is partly real although partly unreal, all objects that are considered commonsensically as conventionally real, are unreal.

If time is unreal, then objects have parts corresponding to each node in the real C-series that they occupy.

It is ultimately the theoretical value of truth, the unreal transcendent object, that is 'known' or grasped in every act of true judgment.

Mutation, metamorphosis, over-population, unreal landscapes and objects are all themes that appear in his work.

Therefore, Vasubandhu sums up the Yogācāra objections against the reality of the external sense-objects (āyatanas) as: "An external sense-object is unreal because it cannot be the intentional object of cognition either as (1) a single thing or (2) as a multiple in [isolated] atoms; or (3) as a aggregate because the atom is not proven to exist" (Viṃ11, Sems tsam shi 3b).

For him if the object of thought is vaseness, that object is unreal and thus quite different from the real particular vases that one sees.

All such objects are unreal, according to Presentism.

Similarly, Paul Taylor (2000) responds to Appiah's racial skepticism by holding that races, even if biologically unreal, remain real social objects (Mallon 2006, 536 537).