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doublethink
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doublethink

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Definition:
the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully-constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them; [...] Even to understand the world ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.

George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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