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Well, there is a simple method: 1. Get the statement from the person that might be lying. 2. Find out what the truth was. If the truth is different than the
by asgard1024 13y ago
Well, there is a simple method:
1. Get the statement from the person that might be lying.
2. Find out what the truth was.
If the truth is different than the statement, the person was lying. Recently uncovered famous liars, with this method, include James Clapper and Vladimir Putin.
- conanbatt 13y agoBesides being overly simplistic, because you cant always know what the truth was, or finding out can take you longer than the timing of the decision you have to make, its is also a flawed process: a person can truthfully say something false. Being wrong doesn't make you a liar.
- drdeca 13y agoIf what they said was false, then would the conclusion not be that they either held the belief incorrectly, misspoke, or were telling a lie? Not all false statements are lies (in what I believe to be the most common definitions) It might be occasionally useful to be able to distinguish between whether someone is telling a lie or is simply stating something false.
- joevandyk 13y agoA lie is "a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive". Emphasis on "deliberate intent to deceive".
- samstave 13y agoObama, Rice, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush, Bush I, Wolfowitz, Ashcroft, Clinton.... I mean -- the list is endless.
- 3rd3 13y agoThis sentence is false.
- flint 13y agoLiar!
- trhway 13y agodue to strong reality distortion fields, whether Putin lied or not depends on where you produce that conclusion - outside or inside of Russia