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Ian Deweese-Boyd: Self-Deception. In: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Zitat: “self-deception involves a person who seems to acquire and maintain some false belief in the teeth of evidence to the contrary as a consequence of some motivation, and who may display behavior suggesting some awareness of the truth”.