Sentence examples for say something false from inspiring English sources
"Because if we say something false, no one will believe us the next day".
If an allegedly inaccurate name like 'Hermogenes' fails to name at all, to call the person in question 'Hermogenes' is not even to say something false, according to Cratylus, but simply to fail to say anything.
Contrast lie meaning to say something false.
"That's the very same tower that Ari built". No, I'd be saying something false.
If I were to point to that tower and say, "Ari built that," I'd be saying something false.
Now when someone says something false, journalists can show they're lying.
(Defamation is when someone knowingly says something false that causes harm).
The presence of a lawyer can limit later claims that a defendant was duped by interrogators, mentally unstable or coerced into saying something false.
But that is not to say it is saying something false.
Yet if that is what (II) expresses, then the skeptic says something false.
He suggested that in such circumstances the use amounts neither to saying something true nor to saying something false.
