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Accordingly, non-intentionalists suggest the intentional model be jettisoned in favor of one that takes 'to be deceived' to be nothing more than to believe falsely or be mistaken in believing (Johnston 1988; Mele 2001).

Since lying is an attempt to deceive, to lie is to attempt to do what is morally wrong (in the absence of defeating factors).

God may have to allow us to be deceived to prevent even greater evils.

"Addicts and alcoholics are particularly good at deceiving people to be able to keep using and drinking.

God was not deceived: to punish her, He turned the children she had concealed into apes.

It's a delicate battle of wits -- an audience that welcomes being deceived, then dares to be fooled, alternately questioning, prodding and surrendering".

We deceive ourselves and we want to be deceived, and we convince ourselves that we have applied rigour and have not been even slightly self-indulgent.

Even the external structure is deceiving: what appears to be a two-story temple actually includes four stories with seven internal levels, part of an elaborately layered maze.

Jackie learned to live by the store's motto, Mundus Vult Deipi Decipiatur, "The world wants to be deceived, let it be deceived," but only to a point.

I was deceiving him, and I am certain that he desired to be deceived.

But we don't want to be deceived again by this regime, which has deceived us many times.