illusions
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Asok is intensely intelligent but naive about corporate life; the shattering of his optimistic illusions becomes frequent comic fodder.
Any illusions that we were ever protected from the rank contempt of our rulers by the logic of democracy – because the government embodies the will of the people who elected it – are now gone.
But the uncertainty aroused by these considerations, by optical illusions, misperceptions, delusions, etc., are not the end of the problems.
Beck had numerous foreign policy schemes and harbored illusions of Poland's status as a great power.
An NSC working group on Afghanistan wrote several reports on the deteriorating situation in 1979, but President Carter ignored them until the Soviet intervention destroyed his illusions.
Although space and time are held to be transcendentally ideal in this sense, they are also empirically real, i.e. not mere illusions.