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To: i-node who wrote (10527)	10/18/2009 2:21:32 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

My assertion was that they use the term "lie" to refer to things that are not "lies". OK, but that's not what you said. I understood all along that you consider the statements called "lies" to not be lies. But you said, "I was referring to a specific malady of seeing things as lies that aren't. " That statement clearly conveys that they are perceiving a lie. Which is not the same thing as their calling something a "lie" for effect or sloppily, without due deference to the dictionary meaning of the word. One is how something registers with with the observer; the other is how he chooses to characterize it when speaking about it. Whether the statements in question are or are not either truthful or honestly incorrect as opposed to lies is beside that point, seems to me. That point is about whether their characterization is honest.