Humans lie but not everything a human says is a lie. If your sample size is conversation rather than word, then you can safely say humans always lie. Otherwise, you're straying into politician lying joke territory.
Ray Parks Consilient Heuristician/IDART Program Manager V: 505-844-4024 M: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 NIPR: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> SIPR: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> (send NIPR reminder) JWICS: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> (send NIPR reminder) On Jan 17, 2013, at 11:42 AM, glen wrote: Parks, Raymond wrote at 01/17/2013 10:34 AM: Yes, we lie frequently. Yes, it is lying - we are either stating a falsehood or omitting the truth (the atheist example upthread). Human beings are social animals - we constantly try to manipulate our social situation for our personal optimum - it's built into us. Some of us are better at it than others. Some (Aspergers?) are downright incapable. OK. Well, if we're all always lying, then it seems like "lying" is a useless term. In order to make progress in the discussion, we'll have to come up with a taxonomy of qualifiers. We've covered "white". It's ubiquitous, and hence also useless. What other types of lying are there? Specifically, which lies are indicators of legally relevant internal states like shame versus which lies are merely facilitators of the type of information control advocated by Eric and my lurker's use case? -- glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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