Timeline for Does hiding a truth constitute lying?
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| Nov 7, 2018 at 10:36 | comment | added | Falco | @KonradRudolph Let us continue this discussion in chat. | |
| Nov 7, 2018 at 10:22 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | @Falco Isn’t that just begging the question? So we avoid semantically defining the term “lying” but we still need to semantically define the term “deception”. I don’t see how this solves anything. | |
| Nov 7, 2018 at 8:47 | comment | added | Falco | @DonQuiKong One could argue lying is only "Verbally stating something untrue to someone with the intention of deceiving him." So writing something, or painting a picture to deceive or wearing a shirt that states something wrong is not strictly equal to "telling a lie" - your disagreement supports my point: it's semantics and quite subjective | |
| Nov 7, 2018 at 8:39 | comment | added | DonQuiKong | @Falco no, that's not the same, that's outright lying because it's not a healthy drink. If I see you grabbing a poison flask and you ask me if you can drink that and I say yes and think "but only once", then that's deception. | |
| Nov 6, 2018 at 14:42 | comment | added | Falco | This is a good answer - deciding whether it is lying or not is mostly a debate about linguistic semantics (what does 'lying' mean) - but if you are talking ethics it is deceptive. If i label a flask of poison "healthy drink" and put it on your table it's the same. | |
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| Nov 6, 2018 at 3:27 | history | answered | Joshua Kearns | CC BY-SA 4.0 |