How To Use Bogy In A Sentence
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Although, as we shall see, Ryle says a good deal more about our mental concepts, it cannot be said that he seriously addresses this question and thereby slays the bogy of mechanism.
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Do not let the bogy of behaviourism scare you off observing these features; I am not asking you to believe that ‘to see’ is itself a word for a kind of behaviour.
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Well, Jim, " he said, " Bogy broke his chain, came over and killed Bounce.
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America's present day myths (Our Health Care System is the best those inferiors that can't make it are the cause of our being robbed of our rights, Obama is a foreigner, Sotomayor is a racist, if we drill domestically we will be OK) are precipitant arguments which address the needs of those who have to focus on outside bogy men.
Paranoia, Sanity and Right Wing Violence
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But, all of a sudden, somebody shut off the steam below, and the hole was left empty in an instant: and then down rushed the water into the hole, in such a whirlpool that the bogy spun round and round as fast as a teetotum.
The Water Babies
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So Ryle's fundamental target is not the Cartesian hypothesis of the ghost in the machine: it is ‘the bogy of mechanism’, mistaken fear of which leads people to embrace the Cartesian hypothesis.
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Pagans mocked the notion as a bogy to frighten people into the Church.
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Inflation is the bogy of many governments.
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Bogy was the next-door neighbors' English bulldog. Normally he was linked by a chain to a wire that stretched about 100 feet across their backyard.
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This is where the vulgar ‘intellectuals’ and slogan-mongers start talking about the bogy of ‘economic rationalism’.
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Clearly our current spirit of neopatriotism cannot vanquish the old bogyman of racism in America.
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Bugaboo is from the archaic term bogy boo -- a term for a hobgoblin or anything that haunts, bothers, bugs, harasses, irks, annoys, or frightens, like the bogeyman.
Common Grammar Mistakes (PHOTOS)
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-- Three members of the Commission, John P. Jones and Louis V. Bogy of the Senate, and George Willard, a representative from Michigan, believed that the United States should remonetize silver without regard to the future policy of Europe, and that a law should be passed fixing 15½ to 1 as the standard of relative value between silver and gold in this country.
Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860