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I think "following lies" is the thing that trips people up. You can't "follow lies" literally -- I'm not sure what the figure of speech is here though. Metony
by emmelaich 8y ago
I think "following lies" is the thing that trips people up.
You can't "follow lies" literally -- I'm not sure what the figure of speech is here though. Metonymy?
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- ColinWright 8y agoYou can follow instructions, and if someone is saying something and you act in a way that is modified by what they've said, then you are, in a very real sense, following what they've said. More, act A can occur before act B, so B is said to follow A. So when someone tells lies, and you act on the (false) information therein, then I think it's reasonable to say that you are following the lies.