Nah, I'd rather analize the sentence:
"Of course having a quality is not the same thing as pretending that you don't have the quality."
We must faux-filet it: Take off the personal baggage en simplify the unnecessary use of two different articles and other superfluous details.
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having a quality is not the same thing as having a quality which you pretend not to have -
Looks like an empty comparison to me as in both cases you still have the quality.
A cleverly veiled platitude?
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