Is there any possibility that a formula to bring an end to lying could be found?
Any novel with the epigraph "Words were invented so that lies could be told" is clearly not going to hand us the truth on a platter.
The president's tweets themselves may not be criminal, but anyone who encouraged or instructed others to lie could be implicated in a coverup conspiracy.
Three years later, Langleben and his colleagues published another study, again involving concealed playing cards, which suggested that lying could be differentiated from truthtelling in individuals as well as in groups.
Anyone refusing to speak could be held in contempt, and anyone lying could be charged with perjury -- but all witnesses would be granted only narrow immunity, allowing later prosecutions based on leads generated in Congress.
It was Mark Twain who first observed that a lie could be halfway round the world before the truth had got its boots on.
("His lies could be tucked into the bags under his eyes, or hidden in the fold of flesh below his chin," he writes of its boss).
It is extraordinary and telling that in a country in which Wilfred Owen is taught almost universally in schools – whose 'old lie' could be recited by many GCSE English students – there is such utter intolerance of alternative forms of remembering.
Ford undercut his earlier mythographic representations of the West by showing how another kind of lie could be perpetuated: the erroneous belief that it was Stoddard, not Doniphon, who killed the monstrous Valance (Lee Marvin).
This is because the Lightning Induced Enhancement (LIE) could be in different Fresnel zones for different paths.
