Lying and falsehood
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
falsehood · a lie · essential falsehood · lie · the veritable lie
spoken of as
1 expressionfalsehood/lying1 mention
Republic (Greek)
Essential falsehood, then, is hated not only by gods but by men.
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
The idea of falsehood, carefully defined and distinguished from mere ambiguity of speech.
for it is evident, that no one can utter a falsehood with a view to impose upon himself.
Words, or signs, importing the same meaning as words, are generally taken for conceptions of the mind, yet it is no lie for any man to utter a falsehood, which he believes to be true;
Those signs, by which the daily intercourse of life is maintained, from a subject of more weighty discussion, with which the consideration of lies or falsehood is necessarily interwoven.
Republic
The concept of falsehood, analyzed into falsehood-in-the-soul (essential, universally hated) and falsehood-in-words (sometimes serviceable against enemies or the mad), used to argue that God has no motive to lie.
Essential falsehood, then, is hated not only by gods but by men.