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What does self-deception mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of fooling oneself, of willfully not accepting the obvious.
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Huey, excited by Robert's ideas on deceit and self-deception, was eager for the three of us to get together.
To get within reach of this plea, it follows that self-deception is almost always integral to the act of lying.
This is an experienced fact and cannot, without dishonesty or self-deception, be denied.
I think that self-deception is, in a wealthy society, the main way that people overcome scarcity.
The printed word is no match for intransigence and self-deception, however, so the papers keep stacking up as the crisis deepens.
Ignorance, self-deception and false consciousness are not taken care of by any techniques of reconciliation.

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