...exists on the same level, within the same mind. As George Orwell wrote about doublethink, it "means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them." Whatever Emerson said about consistency being "the hobgoblin of little minds," it was surely...

...2001 (BRTF 20011. 16 Energy Sources, Diversity, and Long-term Security of Supply Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. (George Orwell, 1984) While Labour's regulatory reform programme was widely advertised in advance...

...wanted people to know I had done it. George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-four defines "doublethink" as "the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." Some of us know you don't need Big Brother's methods to produce doublethink. The troubled mind...

...Orwell discusses 'doublethink,' a concept remarkably similar to self-deception: "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."4 The political elite of 1984 use doublethink as a technique to control the masses. By effectively...

...known in Newspeak as doublethink. (2.9:213-14) 'Blackwhite' is therefore the linguistic equivalent of 'doublethink/ 'the power of holding two contradictory...in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them' (2.9:215). Together, 'blackwhite' and 'doublethink' form a 'system of thought' which perverts...

...the negation of philosophy. This anti-philosophy is expressed through doublethink: 'Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them'.5 Doublethink is a mode of thought that is essentially thoughtless and which is based on the...

...reality in order to maintain control of its citizens through 'doublethink', which was the practice of holding 'two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them' (Orwell 1949, p. 215). Doublethink was necessary 'to deny the existence of objective reality...

...the ability to function." In his 1949 book 1984 George Orwell subsequently wrote, "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." Verdict: Credit F. Scott Fitzgerald. Like it or not, we live in interesting times. . . ." Although...

...7 !: in. (19.4 • 10-1 cm). Collection of George William Wcgman EUREKA 1943-1970 Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. — George Orwell, 7984 I don't need one thing, but two things. Two unrelated things that I put...

...dictatorships. This tendency to uphold incompatible ideas and practices has been described by George Orwell as "the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them."15 Why Americans have been able to practice such split-mindedness is not entirely clear, though...