believing two contradictory ideas at the same time
Doublethink, a word coined by George Orwell in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, describes the act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct, often in distinct social contexts. It is related to, but differs from, hypocrisy and neutrality.
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It need hardly be said that the subtlest practitioners of doublethink are those who invented doublethink and know that it is a vast system of mental cheating 毋庸讳言,一切双重思想的实践者中最狡猾的当属那些发明这一思想的人,他们知道这是一整套智力骗术。