(November 26, 2017 at 3:37 am)Dave B Wrote:(November 25, 2017 at 7:50 pm)Hammy Wrote: That wasn't the point of my question. The point is that "I always tell lies" is not a paradox, because the definition of a lie is not "a false statement", for starters.
Hmm, the Oxford dictionary offers:
Quote:lie2Unless "intentional" is the only thing that is different, missing, then your statement seems to vie with the above.
NOUN
- 1An intentionally false statement.
‘they hint rather than tell outright lies’
‘the whole thing is a pack of lies’
Well, 'intentional' is the operative word. An unintentionally false statement is normally called 'a mistake'. For example, if I say, 'The population of Auckland is two million' when it is actually one and a half million, I haven't told a lie as long as I believe the population to be two million.
All lies are false statements, not all false statements are lies.
Boru
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