Word: figments
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...spaceship--let's say it wanted to find out whether a particular bodily fluid might be effective on the other planet in cleaning windshields without leaving streaks--it would obviously look for someone open to believing in its existence, rather than someone who dismissed extraterrestrial visitors as the figment of someone else's imagination...
Otherwise, when the alien said, "Come with us into our spaceship," the earthling might just say, "Buzz off, figment," and go on about his business, leaving the extraterrestrial just standing there, truly embarrassed...
...have never been a part of the Weldfund-raising machine," bachrach says. "The ideathat I've raised thousands of dollars for Weld isa figment of someone's imagination...
After all, they reason, the racism they hear about may be just a figment of minority students' imagination. Regardless of the facts in any particular case, some people find it much easier to believe that Black sorority women were oversensitive than to believe that a white man made racist remarks...
Then I looked over at my desk where I still keep the gavel that was presented to me at the end of my term, reassuring myself that my presidency was not a mere figment of my imagination...