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What does doublethink mean?

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Noun
  1. The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them.
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This political doublethink seems to have struck down all sorts of people in high places.
Understanding this merely requires a grand exercise in Orwellian doublethink, Greek sophistry and a uniquely Lawloresque take on the world.
Are we being told that he was capable of a sort of spiritual doublethink, persuading himself of the religious truth through his desire to believe?
By an amazing exploit of doublethink, he manages to convince himself that theistic explanations are simple explanations.
This might resemble George Orwell's 1984 with its tyrannic, manipulative government, glossed over by a veneer of humanitarian-sounding doublethink and moralistic rationalizations, and is a very real possibility.
The latest amazing example of Left-leaning doublethink by a political psychologist is here.

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