| 词汇 | example_english_self-deception |
| 释义 | Examples of self-deceptionThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. 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. I engage in a kind of self-deception. She concludes that some cases of manic-depressive cycles do count as genuinely successive but that instances of akrasia, self-deception, and religious or ideological conversion do not. To a large extent, modern pretensions of neutrality reflect a similar self-deception, and modern theorizing about neutrality serves to provide the murkification that permits such deception to flourish. On the assumption of naturalism, self-deception and honest error with regard to paranormal powers has to be counted as one of the possible sources of belief in paranormal powers. That is a dangerous illusion, and we must avoid that kind of self-deception. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Secondly, is she aware that there is something worse than deceiving the general public, and that is self-deception? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Anybody who tries to pretend the contrary is indulging in self-deception or hypocrisy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our parents and grandparents seemed to need the protection of an armour-plated self-deception to cope with the harsh realities of life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is self-deception to pretend that that is not so. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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