Psychological-Temporal Partitioning & the Strategic Paradox (By Scott Roberts) Published March 18th, 2022

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Published on Mar 18, 2022
"Self-deceivers intentionally acquire the belief that p/~p, despite their recognition at the outset that they do not possess enough evidence to warrant this belief by selectively gathering evidence supporting p/~p or otherwise manipulating the belief-formation process to favour the belief that p/~p. Even on this minimal account, such intentions will often be unconscious, since a strategy to acquire a belief in violation of one's normal evidential standards seems unlikely to succeed if one is aware of it."

"The requirement that the self-deceiver intentionally gets himself to hold a belief he knows to be false raises the strategic paradox, since it seems to involve the self-deceiver in an impossible project, namely, both deploying and being duped by some deceitful strategy. As deceiver, he must be aware he's deploying a deceitful strategy; but, as the deceived, he must be unaware of this strategy for it to be effective."

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