It insists that all thought is personal and purposive and that "pure"' thought is a figment.

SAD was once thought to be a figment of an individual's imagination but what research now tells us is that SAD is a real disorder that has an actual clinical diagnosis.

proper Iberian race, that the Basques were always shut in by alien races, that their affinity is still to seek, and that the whole Basque-Iberian theory is a figment.

figment of man 's imagination.

It is clear that in the original form of the tradition the name of the foundling was Scyld or Sceldwea, and that his cognomen'Scefing (derived from sceaf, a sheaf) was misinterpreted as a patronymic. Sceaf, therefore, is no genuine personage of tradition, but merely an etymological figment.