People need countercharms because the imitator is a "sorcerer [goêtês]" and thereby a deceiver (598d; cf. 602d).
Reince Priebus looks at Hillary Clinton and sees a deceiver.
According to Descartes, God's existence is established by the fact that Descartes has a clear and distinct idea of God; but the truth of Descartes's clear and distinct ideas are guaranteed by the fact that God exists and is not a deceiver.
(Matters are complicated, however, by the fact that Descartes also says in the Third Meditation that certainty depends on knowing that God exists and is not a deceiver).
In the Second Set of Objections, Mersenne poses the following problem: although Descartes has argued that our ability to know anything depends on our first knowing that God exists and is not a deceiver, it seems clear that an atheist mathematician can have the same sort of mathematical knowledge as a theist.
Yates couldn't enlighten us on that, but she did provide a glimpse at the White House's initial reaction to the news that it had a deceiver and potential blackmail victim in its midst.
The cancellation crisis is a product of certain Obama weaknesses — his faith in the obviousness of his own good sense, his failure to measure his opponents — and may turn out to be the single thing he's done that will most help those who call him a deceiver and a fraud.
[And a man who reneweth the law in the power of the Most High, ye shall call a deceiver; and at last ye shall rush (upon him) to slay him, not knowing his dignity, taking innocent blood through wickedness upon your heads.] And your holy places shall be laid waste even to the ground because of Him.
A local Christian radio station, which had always supported Lifest, and a local pastor started circulating attacks against me, suggesting that I was a communist, a deceiver, and, worst of all, an adviser to Barack Obama.
