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Can you clarify what you mean by "cognitive illusion"? I don't see why your other three examples should be grouped in that category with free will.
In the physical world we may call a set of wheels on a chassis, with a steering wheel, and a motor, a car. The meaning car is very tangible and useful, but cars are constructs in our minds. In reality it is organized metal, rubber, and fuel.
In the environment of the mind we build concepts like cars, but we put together properties like "store of value", "unit of account", "exchange mechanism", "divisibility", etc. and we call it money, but money doesn't exist per-se, although it is very useful to quantify it, manage it, and turn it into a commerce tool.
The same way we feel that time, free will, and randomness exist.
So, if we call some constructs "cognitive biases", others are calling these more elaborate structures "cognitive illusions".
Who calls things like time and probability cognitive illusions?
Cognitive illusions are formally a category of Optical Illusions.
Free will as a cognitive illusion is mentioned here.
I haven't found time and probability directly mentioned as cognitive illusions.
Determinism is called an illusion here.
Certainty is called an illusion here.
I think to call the above illusions is equivalent to cognitive illusions because they describe similar mental processes and patterns.