Thus, one plausible view is that self-deception and delusion are distinct phenomena that may overlap in some circumstances (for further analysis, see Bayne and Fernàndez 2008).
Back when Moyers spoke with Susan Jacoby about "the ignorance and erosion of historical memory that makes serious deceptions possible and plausible," she cited as an example that, "If we don't know what our Constitution says about the separation of powers then it certainly affects the way we decide all kinds of public issues".
The story is so crazy and terrifying that if it were fiction you might not find it plausible; its themes include trust, family relationships, deception and self-deception, and the insidious side of forgiveness.
It needs to be a struggle between them; Iago's deception has to be plausible.
Further research is needed to establish whether such an autonomy-based justification of deception in medicine could be plausible.
[28] Our study suggests that openly described inert interventions when delivered with a plausible rationale can produce placebo responses reflecting symptomatic improvements without deception or concealment.
While we did not ask respondents whether they personally would want to be deceived in the scenarios we presented, it seems plausible to hypothesize that there might be some relation between a judgment that deception is morally acceptable in some scenario, and what an agent would prefer if that person were in that scenario.
"What currently insists on truth is disproved, because Lie or her younger sister, Deception, often hands over only the most acceptable part of a memory, the part that sounds plausible on paper". In 2008, the world watched America because they knew if it could happen then it would happen here.
Sources of uncertainty include equally plausible alternative explanations, missing information, incorrect object and event typing, diffuse evidence, ambiguous references, prediction of future events, and deliberate deception.
