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n. - Believing two contradictory ideas at the same time.

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  • Outside the Inner Party, doublethink is not even consistent.
  • Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink.
  • Expect lots more of this newspeak and doublethink from the Moulton-Kenney Ministry of Love.
  • But as I hope to show in my discussion of pro-choice reasoning, doublethink is not all that persuasive.
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