Twisted Ways to Speak Our Minds, or Ways to Speak Our Twisted Minds?

Cognitive dissonance is a phenomenon studied not only by psychologists, but also by philosophers. There is cognitive dissonance and then there are its purported manifestations or signs, which include certain kinds of speech act. In philosophy, much attention has been paid to the latter under the name of ‘Moore-paradoxical’ utterances, such as a speaker’s utterance of ‘I am tired, but I don’t believe I am’.