Falsehood
“false speech and false opinion”
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
falsehood · deceit · false discourse · false opinion · lying · pseudos · untruth
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Cratylus
The word for falsehood, first etymologized as the opposite of motion, then examined dialectically as Cratylus denies that false speech is even possible.
Cratylus.
Cratylus.
Cratylus.
Sophist
The capacity of speech and opinion to say or think 'what is not as if it were,' proved to exist once not-being is shown to mingle with opinion and speech; central to refuting the sophist's denial of falsehood.
Theaetetus sits.
And how about this sentence?
But if falsehood exists, deceit exists.
Nāradasmṛti
Falsehood in testimony, condemned as the gravest sin bringing hell and degraded rebirth.
untruth is remembered as men.
The earth is supported by truth;
truth is better than a hundred sons.