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Journalists who work to separate fact from fiction see a dangerous conflation of stories that turn out to be wrong because of a legitimate misunderstanding with those whose clear intention is to deceive.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Well, because it's not a "work" at all but a pastiche whose one and only intention is to deceive.
Wonders Gopnik, "Why not think of that picture as the sublime masterwork that Rothko happened not to have gotten around to?" Well, because it's not a "work" at all but a pastiche whose one and only intention is to deceive.
Honest mistake in the spread of inaccurate information is misinformation, whereas when the intention is to deceive the recipient, it is disinformation.
Their intention was to deceive the authorities into believing that the Jacobites were heading for Chester.
This was fraud, a sick fraud at that, and its intention was to deceive the American people for political purposes".
The main objective of military camouflage is to deceive the enemy as to the presence, position and intentions of military formations.
To pretend otherwise is to deceive ourselves.
Any speaker whose aim is to flatter, or to deceive, aims at something other than truth.
So long as this is the case, the deceptive subsystem, whether it constitutes a separate center of agency or something less robust, must be hidden from the conscious self being deceived if the self-deceptive intention is to succeed.
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