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Lying: Knowledge or belief?

2021; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 179; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s11098-021-01713-1

1573-0883

Neri Marsili,

Misinformation and Its Impacts

A new definition of lying is gaining traction, according to which you lie only if you say what you know to be false. Drawing inspiration from "New Evil Demon" scenarios, I present a battery of counterexamples against this "Knowledge Account" of lying. Along the way, I comment upon the methodology of conceptual analysis, the moral implications of the Knowledge Account, and its ties with knowledge-first epistemology.