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Apr 21, 2013 · The incongruity is stating what he really feels in a situation in which, in real life, no one would do that. The bit works because we’ve all wanted to call in sick or stay home from school or not going to a family event, not due to illness, but because “We hate it there!”
Feb 21, 2008 · Sorensen defines lying as follows: “Lying is just asserting what one does not believe” (Sorensen 2007, 256). It is a condition on telling a lie that one makes an assertion. Sorensen differentiates between assertions and non-assertions according to “narrow plausibility”: “To qualify as an assertion, a lie must have narrow plausibility.
This chapter focuses on the classic philosophical approaches to lying and deception by Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates. It deals with the morality of lying. Two important traditions are traced back to Plato, who sought to justify lying under certain circumstances, and Aristotle, who condemned all lies.
Feb 21, 2008 · Questions of the first kind are definitional. They include the questions of how lying is to be defined, and how deceiving is to be defined, and whether lying is a form of intended deception. Questions of the second kind are moral.
The Invention of Lying is a 2009 American romantic comedy fantasy film written and directed by comedian Ricky Gervais and writer Matthew Robinson in their directorial debuts. The film stars Gervais as the first human with the ability to lie in a world where people can only tell the truth.
May 16, 2013 · In The Invention of Lying, Mark Bellison (Gervais’ character) does so well out of his novel ability to lie precisely because the cooperative nature of the lie-free society he inhabits.
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Jan 28, 2015 · Is lying always a sin or is mendacity not just permissible but the very substance of social cohesion? The author of A History of Lying from the Garden of Eden to the Enlightenment traces its ...
