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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).
On Tuesday, Walsh called that "a truthful statement".
So I made a truthful statement, and Dick understood it.
But what if you had to write a completely truthful statement?
"For some, the easiest solution is to recant their previously truthful statement".
The board's indecision seems to me a more truthful statement about the nature of such prizes than saying a certain book was No. 1.
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To deny absolute truth would be to affirm that some "truthful" statements are possible, and thus the skeptic is caught in a self-contradictory attitude toward the possible existence of "truth".
"Artful Paltering: The Risks and Rewards of Using Truthful Statements to Mislead Others". HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-045, September 2014.
Truthful statements do not necessarily offer an accurate account of events in the world.
It protects the right to damage people's reputation through truthful statements and expressions of opinion.
Politicians' election-year palaver could be translated into truthful statements in plain English!
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