Sentence examples for possibility of deception from inspiring English sources

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It is, on the contrary, to alert us to the possibility of deception, and, especially, self-deception.

The other way is the evil way: by making public, baseless, bullying legal threats against anyone who ever uses your mark, in any context, even when there's no possibility of deception or confusion.

The possibility of deception is implicit; Sherry Terkle, a clinical psychologist and sociology professor at M.I.T. who has written extensively about cyberrelationships, maintains that the very nature of Web interaction involves a kind of fragmentation of what we have traditionally called "identity" -- a breakdown of the unified self.

But things start to get complicated when you bring the possibility of deception into the mix.

Of course, neither of these considerations are justified in our experimental design: subjects interacted in an anonymous, one-shot game with no possibility of deception.

Additionally, it might be worthwhile to focus on the outcomes of another's behavior rather than their apparent intentions to protect against the possibility of deception.

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Consequently, dreams do not undermine our ability to engage in the project of rational inquiry (Frankfurt 1970; but see Broughton 2002), and the possibility of dream deception is limited to sensory-based beliefs.

In bedridden hydrocephalus patients with a shunt assistant, consider the possibility of shunt deception due to abnormal neck positioning.

First, Cooper's Aristotle claims, living well requires that one know the goodness of one's own life; however, given the perpetual possibility of self-deception, one is able accurately to evaluate one's own life only through friendship, in which one's friend acts as a kind of mirror of one's self.

Finally, there is also the possibility that knowledge of deception taking place – even if consented to – might still cause participants some degree of anxiety, a possibility that ought to be avoided especially given the types of participants that would be recruited.

"DUMB LUCK" read the headline in the New York Times, nicely explaining why people should not look to short track as an event where "practice, discipline and courage prevail," but neglecting to explain why, in short-track skating, the possibility of cheating and deception gets dismissed as "dumb luck".

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