tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post1831945189063039..comments2024-03-18T20:24:18.935-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: Intuitions on lying and deceptionAlexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-17711630270755900732008-08-29T05:19:00.000-05:002008-08-29T05:19:00.000-05:00Quite.normatively equivalent to promising to say o...Quite.<BR/><BR/><I>normatively equivalent to promising to say only the truth</I><BR/><BR/>To say of what is that it is?<BR/><BR/>But the real problem I think is that the world is not ideal, that many of us do not learn ideal languages, but that we should use the languages we have (with all their background assumptions and facts of the matter) as best we can to aim at truth (and goodness and such).Martin Cookehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11425491938517935179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-71636009646641138132008-08-25T14:07:00.000-05:002008-08-25T14:07:00.000-05:00If one sarcastically says "This is a wonderful day...If one sarcastically says "This is a wonderful day", one is asserting that it is a rotten day.Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-34975862116758396502008-08-22T10:45:00.000-05:002008-08-22T10:45:00.000-05:00There is certainly a primary presumption of truth,...There is certainly a primary presumption of truth, as we learn a language, and there is often an implicit promise to be truthful in the background later on, but I doubt that every assertion is made with such a promise implicit - what about sarcasm, for example? Or what if one is a second-class citizen being forced to learn the language of one's oppressors?Martin Cookehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11425491938517935179noreply@blogger.com