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Re:Dead People Are Posting Anti-Net Neutrality Comments to F... by et-al on Thursday May 25, 2017 @07:05PM (#14420804)
I think notadoc meant to use the term "mental gymnastics".

(I agree "cognitive dissonance" seems to be misused lately. That's how language evolves, unfortunately. And to add to your definition, it's the stress from with holding two opposing thoughts, hence the dissonance.)

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Re:Dead People Are Posting Anti-Net Neutrality Comments to F... by RRWagner on Thursday May 25, 2017 @11:41PM (#14421835)
How about "cognitive disconnect" as the better descriptive phrase?
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Re:Dead People Are Posting Anti-Net Neutrality Comments to F... by episteam on Friday May 26, 2017 @01:43AM (#14422215)
It's just plain old confirmation bias, though I like the more recent[1] semantic extension of the phrase "epistemic closure" to describe belief systems impervious to outside information.

[1] - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/books/28conserv.html

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