Sentence examples for we are deceived from inspiring English sources
We are deceived by the Ali era.
And thus we are deceived into thinking that the work is the key to their success.
However, there seems to be a more attractive reading: We accept a fallacious argument only if we are deceived about its logical form.
That is, we are aware of some occasions in which we are dreaming and we seem to make those judgements, but we are not aware of any occasion in which we are deceived by an evil genius and we make such judgements.
Augustine (Against the Academics; Confessions) acknowledges the dream problem, but tries to contain it by arguing that even if we are deceived while dreaming, we can at least distinguish dreams and illusions from actual perception retrospectively (see Matthew 2005: chapter 8 for discussion).
"We are deceiving ourselves," he said.
If we just dismiss Isis as merely a mad death cult we are deceiving ourselves.
Mr. Scott says the film suggests that "we're not really deceiving each other about what we do, so much as we are deceiving each other about who we are".
"I think we are deceiving ourselves in this parliament if we believe that we have no responsibility for what has happened in Syria.
That we are deceiving others.
