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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (52941)	7/14/2002 1:18:31 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I'm not sure what I'm lying about. I've been watching for some time the various confrontations about lying hereabouts. The conclusion I have come to is that people just use the term differently. To me, to lie has always meant to assert as true something one knows is false. I checked Webster, which indicated that the knowledge and intent to deceive are required. I think that many people hereabouts use "lie" to cover a wider range of untruth including mistaken, ignorant, uncomplimentary, critical, biased and the like, where the elements of both intent and knowledge of what is or is not true or correct are not necessary. I see it as an imprecision similar to the slippage of "opinion" or "belief" into "fact" that occurs so frequently. I think it is safer to assume that the broader sense of the word, lie, is intended and not get too exercised over the technicalities of word usage. FWIW.