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

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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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    • 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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