Category: Truthfulness
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On the Logical Independence of Person and Proposition
If the Father of Lies speaks a truth per accidens, it is still a truth. And if the Father of Lights speaks a falsehood per impossibile, it is still a falsehood.
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What is Fake News? Rachel’s Overreach
A news item is a report of a recent event. Must the report be true to count as a genuine news item? I should think so. Must the report be current as well? Obviously. It is true that Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election, but no longer news that she did. So there are…
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Practice Refuting Theory
You deny that there is truth, and yet you bitterly resent being lied to?
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Plagiarism
How could you, Monica Crowley? Well, at least you are in good company. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarized portions of his Boston University dissertation: A committee of scholars appointed by Boston University concluded today [10 October 1991] that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarized passages in his dissertation for a doctoral degree at…
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Obama’s Legacy of Deceit
Victor Davis Hanson Only a few more days to go . . . .
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‘Post-Truth’
'Post-truth' is a silly buzz word, and therefore beloved by journalists who typically talk and write uncritically in trendy ways. There is no way to get beyond truth or to live after truth. All of our intellectual operations are conducted under the aegis of truth. Here is one example of how we presuppose truth. People…
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Lie or Exaggeration or Bullshit? Politics in the Age of Bullshit
Over the weekend, Donald Trump bragged in signature style that he “won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” Lefties are calling the statement a lie. But it is no such thing. In the typical case, a lie is a false statement made with the intention to deceive. In…
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Lies, Truth, Narratives, and Hillary
Hillary Clinton we now know to be a liar beyond any shadow of a reasonable doubt. A liar is one who habitually makes false statements with the intention of deceiving her audience. This definition, however, presupposes the distinction between true and false statements. Aphoristically: no truth, no lies. Hillary cannot be a liar unless there…
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Obama the Brazen Liar
Here: “We do not pay ransom. We didn’t here, and we won’t in the future.” Barack Obama might like to have that one back this morning, to stick a pin in the moving finger that writes. But the finger done writ, and it won’t come back to cancel a single line of the president’s fatuous…
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Regret Become Denial
There are past actions one disowns to such an extent that one comes to deny having done them. "I could never have done such a thing!"
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Nixon Redivivus
Hillary's Breathtaking Mendacity. By Andrew McCarthy. Excerpts: To repeat, Clinton and Obama knew it was a terrorist attack but tried to con the country, very much including the families of our dead, into believing our heroes had been killed by a spontaneous response to a video. [. . .] The lies about “an awful Internet…
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Raymond Ibrahim on Islamic Taqiyya
Did presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson get it right when he said that taqiyya "allows, and even encourages, you to lie to achieve your goals"? Ibrahim argues that he did.
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A Note on a Common Misunderstanding of Hypocrisy
I once heard a radio advertisement by a group promoting a "drug-free America." A male voice announces that he is a hypocrite because he demands that his children not do what he once did, namely, use illegal drugs. The idea behind the ad is that it is sometimes good to be a hypocrite. Surely this…
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Will You Vote for Hillary?
Just realize that she is a certified liar, and not a very good one either. One who lies on occasion is not a liar; a liar is one who habitually lies. Is Mrs. Clinton a congenital liar as the late William Safire claimed in a 1996 NYT opinion piece? That's rather a stretch: surely the…
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The Left’s Biggest Lie?
What is largest lie of the Left these days? I just heard Dennis Prager say that it is the lie that opposition to Obama's policies is because of his race. If you disagree, what would be the Left's biggest lie? Truth, as Prager rightly and routinely says, is not a leftist value. Once you understand…