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If Something is Not True, Does That Make it a Lie? The fact that we have terms like ‘white lie’ show how easy it is to forget that lying is objectively evil or look at it as the ‘lesser of two evils ’ Other questions come up when it comes to lying, such as: Is anything that is untrue necessarily a lie?
What is the fallacy called where Nothing a liar said can be true? 0 False dilemma It argues that a person either tells the truth or tells lies, and ignores the third route of telling a mix However, "false in one thing, false in everything" is a legal axiom, and rests on the psychological fact that a person willing to lie is often willing to lie on many things, and is untrustworthy
It’s not “lying” exactly . . . What do you call it when someone . . . I agree that Scavino’s action is morally equivalent to lying, but it’s something different Here’s the definition of “lie” according to Merriam-Webster: 1 : to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive 2 : to create a false or misleading impression Definition 2 suggests that you can lie “by accident,” as it were
Lies, Damned Lies, and Alternative Facts - Psychology Today This was not a lie, insofar as they believed it to be true For something to be a lie, the person putting it out has to believe that it is false, even if, by chance, it happens to be true
The Liar Paradox: A Deep Dive Into The Elusive Nature Of Truth The paradox arises when we consider the truth value of the statement “All Cretans are liars” when it is made by a Cretan who claims to always lie If the statement is true, then Epimenides, as a Cretan, must be a liar, which means that the statement is false On the other hand, if the statement is false, then not all Cretans are liars
Is truth the absence of lies or lying? : r askphilosophy - Reddit A statement is false just in case things are not as the statement says they are Now, sometimes we contrast “truth” with “lies” On one conception, a lie is a statement you know to be false I’m more inclined to say a lie is a statement you believe to be false
Can you lie but at the same time tell the truth? It remains a lie but changes from false to true All that happens is the liar becomes a mistaken liar who happened to be correct To define what a lie is you must invoke truth and falsehood but to define wether something is true or false, lying doesn't need to be mentioned In other works, a lie can be true or false
The Truth about Lying | Issue 27 | Philosophy Now This statement is false But I am not lying I know it’s false, and I know you know it’s false I have only uttered it in order to make my point: It is possible to utter a falsehood and yet not lie In fact, lying has nothing to do with truth and falsity It is simply not true that the definition of lying is the stating of a falsehood
The Philosophy Foundation - As If: Truth and Lies in Fiction As If: Truth and Lies in Fiction Here’s a Sudanese storyteller’s opener: ‘I’m going to tell a story It’s a lie But not everything in it is false ’ From Norma J Livo and Sandra Rietz Storytelling Process and Practice (1986) And here is an extract from the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy’s entry on holes: ‘Naive descriptions of the world treat holes as objects of
Is there a difference between lying and not saying anything? The reason we lie is that we are weak Either the liar or the belied is not able to handle the truth, or we just don't trust people to deal with the truth in a manner that aims for the greatest benefit of all involved