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If deflationary and deep-conflict phenomena belonged to the same psychological kind, the term 'self-deception' would be rendered ambiguous

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1.The two accounts describe significantly different psychological states
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2.A single term covering genuinely distinct kinds produces ambiguity
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1.Natural kind terms like 'jade' or 'water' have historically unified phenomena later revealed to involve distinct underlying mechanisms without becoming ambiguous.
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2.Productive ambiguity in psychological taxonomy can track a genuine functional unity even when mechanistic accounts diverge significantly.
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1.Wittgenstein's family resemblance account shows that terms can legitimately cover heterogeneous cases without sharing a single essential property.
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2.If 'self-deception' picks out a cluster of overlapping features across deflationary and deep-conflict cases, semantic ambiguity does not follow from mechanistic 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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