A Logical Account of Lying Authors:Chiaki Sakama, Martin Caminada and Andreas Herzig Keywords: lying, lies, argumentation systems, artificial intelligence, multiagent systems, intelligent agents.
Abstract:
This paper aims at providing a formal account of lying – a dishonest attitude of human beings. We first formulate lying under propositional modal logic and present basic properties for it. We then investigate why one engages in lying and how one reasons about lying. We distinguish between offensive and defensive lies, or deductive and abductive lies, based on intention behind the act. We also study two weak forms of dishonesty, bullshit and deception, and provide their logical features in contrast to lying. We finally argue dishonesty postulates that agents should try to satisfy for both moral and self-interested reasons. (emphasis in original)
Be the first to have your topic map distinguish between:
- offensive lies
- defensive lies
- deductive lies
- abductive lies (Someone tweet John Sowa please.)
- deception
- bullshit
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