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UF Philosophy Corner | by MatthewDBA | 2008-08-26 07:36:00 |
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A fiction is not a lie. | by hej | 2008-08-26 12:49:54 |
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In my example case | by MatthewDBA | 2008-08-26 12:56:33 |
| That's a different question. |
by hej |
2008-08-26 14:41:42 |
As I see it, the "mostly true" part doesn't matter. A good fraud or propagandist will use lots of truth as camoflage for his lies.
The significant parts are the untrue part, and the intent. So to use your example, if the names were changed to make the readers believe that the crime was committed by somebody that didn't do it then that is a lie, but if they were changed to placeholders that were obviuosly intended to hide the actual names (John Doe, Joe Schmoe etc) then I wouldn't call that a lie.
Also, something I should have had in my other post. You had something about saying "in the story" that something is true. Nothing that is said in a fictional story can make it a lie just like nothing a magician says in a show makes him a liar. What is needed for untrue things to be fine and not lies is that it is put in a context that makes clear that it is fiction. So a true crimes story in a publication that often has true crimes stories and always change the names is different from the same story in a context were you only learn about the true crimes format from the preface if the preface fails to explain about the changed names. |
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