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'''Doublethink''' in [[George Orwell]]'s anti-utopian novel ''[[1984]]'' is the practice of keeping two contradictory thoughts in one's own mind.
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'''Doublethink''' in [[George Orwell]]'s anti-[[utopia]]n novel ''[[1984]]'' is the practice of keeping two contradictory thoughts in one's own mind.
    
In [[formal logic]], it is considered disproof of a [[premise]], if it implies two contradictory [[statement]]s. So in Orwell's nightmare political vision, citizens participate actively in their own [[indoctrination]], willingly accepting false government [[propaganda]]. Indeed, the main character of ''1984'' is a man whose job is to falsify historical documents in the government [[archive]]s.
 
In [[formal logic]], it is considered disproof of a [[premise]], if it implies two contradictory [[statement]]s. So in Orwell's nightmare political vision, citizens participate actively in their own [[indoctrination]], willingly accepting false government [[propaganda]]. Indeed, the main character of ''1984'' is a man whose job is to falsify historical documents in the government [[archive]]s.

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