blacktrance comments on White Lies - Less Wrong

38 Post author: ChrisHallquist 08 February 2014 01:20AM

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Comment author: blacktrance 17 February 2014 07:42:20AM 0 points [-]

As used here, "lying" means "intentional deception", so if you say something, believing it to be true, but it's actually false, it's not lying. The contrast is not saying what's true vs saying what's false, but saying what you believe to be true vs saying what you believe to be false.