Abstract

FERNANDEZ ACEVEDO, Gustavo. Self-Deception, Beliefs Systems and Self-knowledge’s Errors. arete [online]. 2015, vol.27, n.1, pp.69-85. ISSN 1016-913X.

Richard Holton has criticized the common idea that self-deception is deception by the self, and suggested it is rather deception about the self; self-deception must include necessarily erroneous beliefs about the self. In this article I claim that this condition is not necessary, based on two central traits of self-deception: its temporal character and its bound to multiplication. In addition, I suggest an alternative condition in relation to the beliefs system implied in self-deception.

Keywords : self-deception; self; self-knowledge; belief systems; temporality.

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