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    It is not the case that A dispositional account of self-deception should be developed that focuses on how self-deceivers' dispositions deviate from those of stereotypical full belief.

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    • 1.Ordinary folk psychological belief concepts already accommodate degrees and indeterminacy through the notion of partial belief or credence (Bratman, Schwitzgebel).
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    • 2.A dispositional account that merely redescribes folk belief in terms of behavioral dispositions collapses into a sophisticated folk psychology, not a genuine alternative.
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    • 1.Sartre's account of mauvaise foi demonstrates that self-deception is constitutively about a failure of reflective self-knowledge, not deviant belief dispositions.
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    • 2.A dispositional framework that focuses on behavioral deviations from stereotypical belief systematically obscures the first-person phenomenological structure that makes self-deception distinctively problematic for moral responsibility.
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    • 1.Self-deceivers show the limits of the folk psychological concepts of belief.
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    • 2.Folk psychological belief concepts cannot adequately capture the indeterminate doxastic states of self-deceivers.
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