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    Challenges→Non-intentional accounts of self-deception that deny the contradictory belief requirement should not suppose that self-deceivers are typically responsible for their self-deception.

    Without knowing when or on which beliefs the mechanisms operate, self-deceivers are unable to curb the effects of these mechanisms, even when the mechanisms produce false beliefs about morally significant matters.

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    Mechanisms(as used to describe biological processes)
    The specific ways or processes by which something works or produces an effect.
    curb the effects(as used in general philosophical discussion)
    To limit, control, or reduce the influence or impact of something.
    false beliefs(as used in epistemology)
    Ideas or convictions that don't match reality—things you think are true but actually aren't.
    morally significant matters

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    (as used in ethics)
    Topics or situations that involve questions of right and wrong, and have real ethical importance for how we should behave.
    self-deceivers(as used in epistemology and psychology)
    People who trick themselves into believing things that aren't true, usually without realizing they're doing it.

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    Levy (2004) has argued that non-intentional accounts of self-deception that deny the contradictory belief requirement should not suppose that self-deceivers are typically responsible, since it is rarely the case that self-deceivers possess the requisite awareness of the biasing mechanisms operating to produce their self-deceptive belief. Lacking such awareness, self-deceivers do not appear to know when or on which beliefs such mechanisms operate, rendering them unable to curb the effects of thes

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