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  2. Lie - Wikipedia

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    Lie-to-children is a phrase that describes a simplified explanation of technical or complex subjects as a teaching method for children and laypeople. While lies-to-children are useful in teaching complex subjects to people who are new to the concepts discussed, they can promote the creation of misconceptions among

  3. Wikipedia:Don't lie - Wikipedia

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    A sculpture depicting truth and falsehood battling it out. Editors should not make false statements on Wikipedia.There are many ways that editors can lie on Wikipedia, such as deliberately using a quote out of context to mislead readers, fabricating a reference, stating content is not included in an article when it actually is, or making untrue accusations about the conduct of another editor.

  4. Lie-to-children - Wikipedia

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    A lie-to-children is a simplified, and often technically incorrect, explanation of technical or complex subjects employed as a teaching method. Educators who employ lies-to-children do not intend to deceive, but instead seek to 'meet the child/pupil/student where they are', in order to facilitate initial comprehension, which they build upon over time as the learner's intellectual capacity expands.

  5. Knights and Knaves - Wikipedia

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    In this case, Alice is a knave and Bob is a knight. Alice's statement cannot be true, because a knave admitting to being a knave would be the same as a liar telling the truth that "I am a liar", which is known as the liar paradox. Since Alice is a knave this means she must have been lying about them both being knaves, and so Bob is a knight.

  6. Radical honesty - Wikipedia

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    Radical honesty (RH) is the practice of complete honesty without telling even white lies.The phrase was trademarked in 1997 as a technique and self-improvement program based on the 1996 bestselling book Radical Honesty by Brad Blanton. [1]

  7. Unreliable narrator - Wikipedia

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    But some are imitations who tell the truth, some of people who lie. [8] Rabinowitz's main focus is the status of fictional discourse in opposition to factuality. He debates the issues of truth in fiction, bringing forward four types of audience who serve as receptors of any given literary work:

  8. Dan Ariely - Wikipedia

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    Directed by Yael Melamede and released in 2015, (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies is a documentary film exploring dishonesty in contemporary society. [55] Ariely presents the film, offering analysis on the psychological mechanisms that drive deceit.

  9. Epimenides paradox - Wikipedia

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    In fact, Cretans could tell the truth quite often, but still all be liars in the sense that liars are people prone to deception for dishonest gain. Considering that "All Cretans are liars" has been seen as a paradox only since the 19th century, this seems to resolve the alleged paradox.