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From the libertarian perspective, such self-deception is naturally understood as an expression of our freedom.
But some people, owing to ignorance, self-deception, or willful blindness, do not see that this is a task calling for cooperation of an unprecedented kind.
Their feeling of security was a self-deception, they were effacing an aspect of reality, a phenomenon which, in clinical psychiatry, is labelled denial.
This bit of deception, even if it was only self-deception, disturbed many of us, and we persuaded him to stop.
Various philosophers have pondered the question of how self-deception is possible.
Concealers who believe that their lies are morally less bad than those of falsifiers are indulging in self-deception.
The stir that this result created among generative linguists is evidence of remarkable self-deception on the part of many of them.
Their answer is that pride can motivate this choice and self-deception can maintain it in the face of unhappiness.
Commitment to revealed-preference theory also seems to involve self-deception.
It is not cussedness, or blindness, or willing self-deception that leads him to believe this.
Unhappily, it is a method, which lends itself very readily to self-deception.
In this case, because the desire in question is short term, it is difficult to distinguish self-deception from a real change in desire.
Now it is clear that the pride of this people was the product of self-deception, counting the whole world as insignificant in their view.
Indeed, psychoanalytic theory suggests that self-deception can work only if there is more than a little truth in the deception.
The cogito recognizes things and gets in the details, moving among spaces while invoking and imagining other sights and spaces, prone to self-deception.
