...sardonic references to the year 1984. Readers of the Ge orge Orwell novel might recall the definition of "doublethink" : . . . the power of holding two contradictory...in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. . . . This process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision....

...sardonic references to the year 1984. Readers of the Gteorge Orwell novel might recall the definition of "doublethink" : . . . the power of holding two contradictory...in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. . . . This process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision....

..."doublethink," the mental process of "newspeak," as reality control, and he explains: Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows...

...Orwell conceives it in Nineteen Eighty-Four, 'is a vast system of mental cheating': Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows...

...and doublethink was a mental trick that had to be mastered by rulers and ruled alike. Doublethink was "the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them." of using "conscious deception while maintaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete...

...may come as close as one can to articulating the essence of Lukacs' syllogisms: "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows...

...odd and in some ways genuinely amusing state of affairs is in principle akin in its logic to Orwell's doublethink, "the power of holding two contradictory...in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them," or to the Ibanskian rule that "if the leadership allows something it does not wish to allow,...

...figure in Madame Tussaud's gallery, Williams exhibits him as being permanently fixed in a state of doublethink ("the power of holding two contradictory...in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them"). This ideological "one-upmanship", amounting to "treblethink", is given a spurious air of ideological...

...doubleparking, double-parking parking a car parallel to another car parked by a curb [24.4 Dec. 1949] doublethink the power of holding two contradictory...in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them [28.4 Dec. 1953] double zero ZERO-ZERO [64.1 Spring 1989] dough-happy [22.3 Oct. 1947 sv happy]...

...instruments and possibilities of mass communications. Allied to "Newspeak" was "Doublethink", which meant the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. In his novel '1984', Orwell's hero Winston Smith sits in a cubicle at the Ministry of Truth forever...