0 something that seems real but is not:
Was it just a figment of my imagination or did I hear John's voice in the other room?
The opposition is only resolved when economic realities of modernity make the world of the riverboats redundant, mere figments of the urban imagination.
Some think it obvious that values are figments of our imagination or projections of our feelings, that talk about values is mere exclamation or prescription.
Oddly enough, to some investigators this event is little more than a figment of our imagination, at least in terms of evolution.
Nor can it be used, say, to dismiss bounded rationality anomalies as figments of semantic misunderstandings.
In both conditions he is more authentic than the lover, who remains enthralled to a figment or void that corresponds to the fate built into his artificial self.
The house is not the figment of the imagination of a technology journalist, but actually has been built and has a price tag and is for sale now.
It is impossible to dismiss all these apprehensions as groundless figments of the imagination.
Was it a figment of the naval correspondent's imagination?
