The phrase "amount of deception" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to quantify or describe the level or extent of deceit in a situation or behavior.
Example: "The amount of deception in his story was alarming, leading many to question his credibility."
Alternatives: "level of deceit" or "degree of dishonesty".
The greatest diversity occurs when there is a certain amount of deception.
When I asked one of Strauss's staunchest defenders, Joseph Cropsey, professor emeritus of political science at Chicago, about the use of Strauss's views in the area of policymaking, he told me that common sense alone suggested that a certain amount of deception is essential in government.
"On a site like Silk Road, where...most of the goods sold are illicit, one would expect a certain amount of deception to occur.
Many of these theories don't necessarily assert that the shooting didn't happen, but all of them claim some amount of deception has been wrought on the American public as to what happened in Newtown, Conn., that day.
There is no amount of ideological deception capable of altering basic physics, chemistry and biology.
The persistence of this coalition required an immense amount of self-deception on both sides.
"Structured procrastination requires a certain amount of self-deception, because one is in effect constantly perpetrating a pyramid scheme on oneself," he writes.
Perry points out that "structured procrastination requires a certain amount of self-deception, since one is, in effect, constantly perpetrating a pyramid scheme on oneself... This is not a problem, because virtually all procrastinators have excellent self-deceptive skills.
For this and subsequent years, the company "will provide the investment community with our actual internal budget, broken down by business segments...it's a far more productive process than trying to manage the Street".Yet the internal budget process itself involves a fair amount of self-deception.
On both counts, it amounts to deception.
It almost amounts to deception".
