Lying and intentions

In this essay I criticize recent attempts to prove that the concept of lying does not include the intent to deceive. I argue that examples by Isenberg and Carson fail to prove that one can lie without intending to deceive and, furthermore, that untoward consequences would follow if these authors wer...

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Main Author: Jones, Gary E. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 1986
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 1986, Volume: 5, Issue: 4, Pages: 347-349
Further subjects:B Recent Attempt
B Deceptive Advertisement
B Untoward Consequence
B Economic Growth
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Summary:In this essay I criticize recent attempts to prove that the concept of lying does not include the intent to deceive. I argue that examples by Isenberg and Carson fail to prove that one can lie without intending to deceive and, furthermore, that untoward consequences would follow if these authors were correct. I conclude that since intending to deceive is indeed a necessary condition of lying, the class of statements that constitute lies is smaller than what Isenberg et al. would suggest. Hence the class of deceptive advertisements is also correspondingly smaller.
ISSN:1573-0697
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/BF00383102