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    It is not the case that Davidson's account grounds self-deception in akratic-style partition of the mind, where the motivating state is a full propositional attitude toward the world, not a second-order desire about one's own doxastic states.

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    • 1.Self-deception centrally involves motivated ignorance about one's own mental states, making second-order attitudes psychologically essential.
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    • 2.First-order world-directed attitudes alone cannot explain why self-deceivers specifically hide truths from themselves rather than others.
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    • 3.Partition models struggle to explain how one part of mind causally motivates belief-formation in another part without homuncular circularity.
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    • 1.Self-deception involves genuine belief formation, not mere desire manipulation, so it requires propositional attitudes toward world-states.
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    • 2.First-order attitudes about external facts better explain why self-deceivers resist counterevidence than second-order desires about beliefs.
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    • 3.Akratic partition models avoid the regress problem: we don't need infinite hierarchies of desires about desires to explain self-deception.
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