Lying and falsehood
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
falsehood · a lie · essential falsehood · lie · the veritable lie
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
The idea of falsehood, carefully defined and distinguished from mere ambiguity of speech.
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.
Nor is speaking an untruth, unawares, to be considered in the nature of a lie, but the falsehood, which comes within the limits here defined, is the known and deliberate utterance of any thing contrary to our real conviction, intention, and understanding.
for it is evident, that no one can utter a falsehood with a view to impose upon himself.