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    Deflationary and deep-conflict accounts of self-deception may not describe the same psychological kind

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    • 1.Deflationary accounts target people who do not believe the unwelcome truth that ~p and show motivated, unwarranted skepticism toward it
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    • 2.Deep-conflict accounts target people who know the unwelcome truth that ~p and avoid reflecting on it or encountering evidence for it
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    • 3.These two phenomena differ significantly in their doxastic structure
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    • 1.Freud's account of repression shows that motivated ignorance and occurrent belief can coexist within a single psychological episode.
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    • 2.If a unified psychoanalytic mechanism underlies both phenomena, then deflationary and deep-conflict cases may be continuous rather than categorically distinct.
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    • 3.Categorical distinctness in doxastic structure does not entail distinctness of psychological kind if the same motivational architecture produces both.
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    • 1.Mele's 'twisted self-deception' cases demonstrate that subjects can oscillate between disbelieving ~p and tacitly knowing ~p without a clean categorical boundary.
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    • 2.If the doxastic states in question admit of gradations rather than discrete types, the purported structural difference between accounts tracks a continuum, not a kind difference.
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    The significant difference between what deflationary accounts have in view (namely, people who do not believe the unwelcome truth that ~p, having a motivation driven, unwarranted skepticism toward it), and deep conflict theorist do (namely, people who know the unwelcome truth that ~p and avoid reflecting on it or encountering evidence for it) prompts us to ask whether these phenomena belong to the same psychological kind, according to Lynch (2012). If they did, ‘self-deception’ would be rendered
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