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Subject: definition of cognitive dissonance
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Date: 4 Feb 90 00:27:00 GMT
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>I'm certain that's a terrible thing, but I'm not exactly
>sure what it means.

The definition can get long winded, especially when people start giving
examples of types, or start sketching it out as set theory, but essentially
it means believing something is both True and False at the same time.

Dave