Choice from Deception

An Choice from Deception is an unforced personal choice where a deceived agent chooses to believe a deceptive argument (produced by a deceiver performing an deception attempt).

• AKA: In-Bad-Faith Choice.
• Context:
  • It can range from being a Deceived by Another to being a Deceived by Self.
  • …
• Example(s):
  • In-Bad-Faith to-Others Choices, such as:
    • a Bad Faith Negotiation, such as where a company representative who negotiates with union workers while having no intent of compromising.
    • a prosecutor who argues a legal position that he knows to be false.
    • an insurer who uses deliberately misleading reasoning in order to deny a claim.
  • In-Bad-Faith to-Self Choices, such as:
    • “I cannot do X because I belong to psychological type Y (e.g. I'm an introvert)."
• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Authentic Choice.
• See: Negotiation, Insurance Bad Faith, Duplicity, Fraud, Act of Faith, Fraud, Half-Truths, Lying by Omission, Dissimulation, Propaganda, Sleight of Hand.

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References

2013

• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/self-deception/#DefIss
  • QUOTE: What is self-deception? Traditionally, self-deception has been modeled on interpersonal deception, where A intentionally gets B to believe some proposition p, all the while knowing or believing truly ~p. Such deception is intentional and requires the deceiver to know or believe ~p and the deceived to believe p. One reason for thinking self-deception is analogous to interpersonal deception of this sort is that it helps us to distinguish self-deception from mere error, since the acquisition and maintenance of the false belief is intentional not accidental.

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