If I tell you that the local bar is giving out free beer tonight, because I just made that up, have I committed deliberate deception? I don’t know that that statement is false. I just have no knowledge at all about the state of the bar tonight, coupled with some priors which suggest that free beer is unlikely. But if by “deception” you mean “I know X is false and I said X anyway”, I haven’t tried to deceive you at all.
So it doesn’t make sense to limit the concept of bad faith to deliberate deception.
I would consider that deliberate deception, yes. I interpret “deception” to mean something like “actions that are expected or intended to make someone’s beliefs less accurate”.
You would be deceiving someone regarding the strength of your belief. You know your belief is far weaker than can be supported by your statement, and in our general understanding of language a simple statement like ‘X is happening tonight’ is interpreted as having a strong degree of belief.
If you actually truly disagree with that, then it wouldn’t be deception, it would be miscommunication, but then again I don’t think someone who has trouble assessing approximate Bayesian belief from simple statements would be able to function in society at all.
If I tell you that the local bar is giving out free beer tonight, because I just made that up, have I committed deliberate deception? I don’t know that that statement is false. I just have no knowledge at all about the state of the bar tonight, coupled with some priors which suggest that free beer is unlikely. But if by “deception” you mean “I know X is false and I said X anyway”, I haven’t tried to deceive you at all.
So it doesn’t make sense to limit the concept of bad faith to deliberate deception.
I would consider that deliberate deception, yes. I interpret “deception” to mean something like “actions that are expected or intended to make someone’s beliefs less accurate”.
The technical name, for a statement made with no concern for its truth or falsehood, is bullshit.
You would be deceiving someone regarding the strength of your belief. You know your belief is far weaker than can be supported by your statement, and in our general understanding of language a simple statement like ‘X is happening tonight’ is interpreted as having a strong degree of belief.
If you actually truly disagree with that, then it wouldn’t be deception, it would be miscommunication, but then again I don’t think someone who has trouble assessing approximate Bayesian belief from simple statements would be able to function in society at all.