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Prevarication is avoidance of the truth. Prevarication can include, or be part of: Deception; Evasion (ethics) Waffle (speech) This page was last edited on 23 ...
Prevarication is the ability to lie or deceive. When using language, humans can make false or meaningless statements. When using language, humans can make false or meaningless statements. This is an important distinction made of human communication, i.e. language as compared to animal communication.
Prevarication: A speaker can say falsehoods, lies, and meaningless statements. Reflexiveness : Language can be used communicate about the very system it is, and language can discuss language Learnability : A speaker of a language can learn another language
Mental reservation (or mental equivocation) is an ethical theory and a doctrine in moral theology which recognizes the "lie of necessity", and holds that when there is a conflict between justice and telling the truth, it is justice that should prevail.
Deception is the act of convincing one or many recipients of untrue information. The person creating the deception knows it to be false while the receiver of the message has a tendency to believe it (although it is not always the case). [1]
In linguistics, displacement is the capability of language to communicate about things that are not immediately present (spatially or temporally); i.e., things that are either not here or are not here now.
Since production of novel (new, non-established) structures is the clearest proof of usage of a grammatical process, the evidence most often appealed to as establishing productivity is the appearance of novel forms of the type the process leads one to expect, and many people would limit the definition offered above to exclude use of a grammatical process that does not result in a novel structure.
The philosopher Kristina Šekrst [4] uses the findings to show that if this is held to involve self-deception, then belief is implied to be present, meaning at least Mitchell's third level of deception. The evolutionary ecologist Michael Angilletta et al. show that to establish adaptive self-deception, biologists must quantify the cost and ...