It is possible for a person to lie by publishing an untruthful report about an event (Kant 1997, 203), or by making an untruthful statement on a tax return, or by sending an untruthful e-mail to everyone on a mailing list, or by making an untruthful statement in a magazine advertisement or a television commercial.
According to the untruthfulness condition, lying requires that a person make an untruthful statement, that is, make a statement that she believes to be false.
Mr. Browne acknowledged making an untruthful statement in court about the circumstances under which he had met a younger man with whom he had had a relationship.
If a speaker is making an untruthful statement to a hearer, and "Everyone knows that false things are being said," that is, the speaker knows that the hearer knows that the speaker is being untruthful, then the speaker does not believe that she is in a warranting context.
If Harry makes the untruthful statement "I have no change in my pocket" to Michael, but Harry does not intend that Michael believe that Harry believes it to be true, then Harry is not lying to Michael, even if Harry intends that Michael believe it to be true (Frankfurt 1986, 85; 1999, 96).
If the victim were to make the untruthful statement, "I have no money," Kant says that this is not a lie, "for the other knows that… he also has no right whatever to demand the truth from me" (Kant 1997, 203; but see Mahon 2009).
If Sophie makes the untruthful statement to Nicole "I didn't get any homework today," with the intention that Nicole believe that statement to be true, and if Nicole does not believe that statement to be true, then Sophie is still lying.
According to the untruthfulness condition, it is sufficient for lying that the person who makes the untruthful statement intends that the addressee believe the untruthful statement to be true; it is not necessary that the addressee believe the untruthful statement to be true.
If a negotiator makes an untruthful statement, "That is the highest I can go," to another negotiator, then, since the negotiator believes that the other negotiator believes that he is making an untruthful statement, he cannot intend to warrant the truth of his statement, and/or the context (of negotiation) is such that he is not warranting the truth of his statement.
We have not concealed the shortcomings of our device nor have we made untruthful claims about our project.
