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Lying with ouch! and oops!
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DOI：10.1007/s11229-025-05295-x.png)
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Orthodoxy within the literature on the lying-misleading distinction understands the distinction to be between asserting disbelieved information, maybe with an intention to deceive, and conversationally implicating such information by asserting something believed to be true. The main battleground within Orthodoxy is over what account of assertion can bear this weight. In this paper I argue against Orthodoxy. More specifically, I argue that lying does not require assertion, nor is the relevant attitude disbelief. Speakers can expressively lie when they utter Ouch! by not being in acute pain. Expressive lies necessitate a dramatic shift away from the orthodox, assertion-based theory of lying that dominates the literature and towards a heterodox, expressing-based one.
Keywords:
Lying
Misleading
Expressives
Assertion