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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] Worrying political uses aside, aren't we all engaged in "doublethink," at least to some degree? I know Orwell was down on it, and maybe we should be, but isn't that, or something like that, how we deal (those of us who are able to) with the sure knowledge of our inevitable death? Or how we avoid becoming misanthropes while being aware of history? It isn't, I'd argue, just a matter of enjoying one thing in spite of knowledge of another, but an actual momentary denial of one or the other concept which we nevertheless fully believe in or recognize. [But, then, and here I think I am getting way off track -- but I think we get tripped up by the concept of doublethink because we assume that there is some activity, or moment, or nexus of consciousness that we can point to and say "there is the house of the complete self," the part that is aware of all the others. I don't believe that any such unifying self exists. So I don't think it's a paradox that we can really know something, at least to the extent we can ever know anything, one moment, and then fully believe something contrary later.] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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