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  • noun The quality of being illusory.

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illusory +‎ -ness

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  • Seminar series; jointly taught courses; larger divisional, non-departmental umbrella courses; and research seminars can all offer these opportunities without the costs or illusoriness of small unsustainable programs (at Grinnell College, we have undertaken this through more emphasis on interdisciplinarity facilitated by our Expanding Knowledge Initiative).

    Russell K. Osgood: Controlling Higher Education Costs by Curtailing Specialized Programs 2010

  • Perception in presentational immediacy could produce the experience of the illusoriness of the phenomenal world, and causal efficacy without referential specificity may result in the experience of a non-specific unity of reality.

    Archive 2005-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • Perception in presentational immediacy could produce the experience of the illusoriness of the phenomenal world, and causal efficacy without referential specificity may result in the experience of a non-specific unity of reality.

    A. N. Whitehead and Sri Aurobindo Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • Helped along by drugs and meditation, the counter-culture generation realized the “illusoriness of worldly striving.”

    Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981

  • Helped along by drugs and meditation, the counter-culture generation realized the “illusoriness of worldly striving.”

    Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981

  • Helped along by drugs and meditation, the counter-culture generation realized the “illusoriness of worldly striving.”

    Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981

  • Helped along by drugs and meditation, the counter-culture generation realized the “illusoriness of worldly striving.”

    Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981

  • He saw well the illusoriness and unfruitfulness of such a universe as Spinoza dreamed.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

  • But when we remarked that the natural man desired to be made well rather than to be made good, we were not merely thinking of one side of Christian Science teaching; we were bearing in mind that the author of _Science and Health_ declares the illusoriness of pain only as part of the illusoriness of all evil, moral as well as physical.

    Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive Joseph Warschauer

  • So far as the wholesale declaration of the illusoriness of physical evil -- the ravages and tortures of disease -- is concerned, the implicit belief extended to the pretensions of this creed to master all such ills is proof, if proof were wanted, of the success which rewards those who act on the maxim, "_de l'audace, toujours de l'audace_!"

    Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive Joseph Warschauer

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