If you once tell a lie, the truth is ever after your enemy.
That isn’t true.
I’ve told lies when I was a kid. If I got caught I gave up rather than doing an epistomological attack.
Richard Kennaway: “I feel that X.” Every sentence of this form is false, because X is an assertion about the world, not a feeling. Someone saying “I feel that X” in fact believes X, but calling it a feeling instead of a belief protects it from refutation. Try replying “No you don’t”, and watch the explosion. “How dare you try to tell me what I’m feeling!”
If I say I feel something, I’m talking about an emotion. I don’t intend it to be an objective statement about the world, and I’m not offended if someone says it doesn’t apply to everyone else.
If you once tell a lie, the truth is ever after your enemy.
That isn’t true.
I’ve told lies when I was a kid. If I got caught I gave up rather than doing an epistomological attack.
Richard Kennaway: “I feel that X.” Every sentence of this form is false, because X is an assertion about the world, not a feeling. Someone saying “I feel that X” in fact believes X, but calling it a feeling instead of a belief protects it from refutation. Try replying “No you don’t”, and watch the explosion. “How dare you try to tell me what I’m feeling!”
If I say I feel something, I’m talking about an emotion. I don’t intend it to be an objective statement about the world, and I’m not offended if someone says it doesn’t apply to everyone else.
“If you once tell a lie...” should, of course, read “If you once tell a lie then, until you give it up...”.