Can a Question Be a Lie? An Empirical Investigation
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چکیده
In several recent papers and a monograph, Andreas Stokke argues that questions can be misleading, but they cannot lies. The aim of this paper is to show ordinary speakers disagree. We judge certain kinds insincere lies, namely carrying believed false presupposition the speaker intends convey. These judgements are robust remain so when participants given possibility classifying utterances as misleading or deceiving. contrast with give about cases deceptive behaviour, pattern make declarative Finally, lying non-declaratives not confined questions: also imperative, exclamative optative sentences believed-false presuppositions
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Ergo
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2330-4014']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.1144