Similarly, if someone intends to deceive using a joke for example, if con artist David says "Yeah, I am a billionaire.
It is also possible to deceive using truthful statements that are not assertions, such as jokes, ironic statements, and even the lines of a play delivered on stage, so long as the intention to deceive can be formed.
In addition to deceiving by means of lying, it is possible to deceive using natural or causal signs (indices), such as packing a bag as though one were going on a holiday, in order to catch a thief (Kant 1997, 202).
In response to this criticism, McDowell has said that in accepting his disjunctive account of experience we need not pretend to have an argument that can prove that we are not being deceived using premises we can affirm without begging the question against the sceptic.
If, for example, I am asked if I stole the money, and I reply in an ironic tone, "Yeah, right, of course I did," when I did steal the money, intending that I be believed to have not stolen the money, and if I am believed, then I have deceived using a truthful statement (it is unclear if such cases of "telling the truth falsely" (Frank 2009, 57) are to be considered as cases of paltering).
It is possible to deceive by using signs that work by resemblance (icons), for example by posting a smiley face emoticon about a news item that one is actually unhappy about.
In Virtual Unreality: Just Because The Internet Told You, How Do You Know It's True? (Viking), Seife explores the digital methods used to deceive us and offers practical tools for figuring out the truth online.
I believe that he purposely deceived me, using the possibility of joining the ROTC as a ploy to work with the draft board to delay his induction and get a new draft classification".
I know Sadat and Mubarak and all the military dictators, they use maneuvers, they deceive us, and so I was not shocked by the deception.
Not sure about the claims about being able to deceive systems by using a wider portfolio of language… it really is an analog of how spammers would need to defeat Naive Bayes classifiers.
But, according to human-rights observers, government officials, and the press, its purpose was to deceive the public — using fake evidence and theatrical witnesses in order to cover up the military's crimes.
