This bit of deception, even if it was only self-deception, disturbed many of us, and we persuaded him to stop.
But because human representations of agency and intention include representations of false belief and deception, human society is forever under threat of moral defection.
And this is wrong for the very same reasons that deception is wrong : it interferes with rational autonomy.
Here the wrongs are typically vices of concealment, involving deception and manipulation.
The target article describes some fascinating research that does not go down the well-trodden pathways of the usual studies of deception and false belief.
These dialogues are crafted with great subtlety conveying, at the same time, convictions of truth and falsehood, choice and manipulation, decision and deception.
The discernment and deployment of deception and indirection required in courtship prepared men for courtly existence as a whole.
The literal meaning of the term prestidigitator is 'nimble-fingered', but its connotations extend to the idea of illusion, imposture, deception.
