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Curtis and Hart (2020) defined pathological lying as "a persistent, pervasive, and often compulsive pattern of excessive lying behavior that leads to clinically significant impairment of functioning in social, occupational, or other areas; causes marked distress; poses a risk to the self or others; and occurs for longer than 6 months" (p. 63).
Pseudologia fantastica is a term applied by psychiatrists to the behavior of habitual or compulsive lying. Mythomania is the condition where there is an excessive or abnormal propensity for lying and exaggerating. [61] A recent study found that composing a lie takes longer than telling the truth. [43]
Jeremy Adam Smith wrote that "lying is a feature, not a bug, of Trump's campaign and presidency." [27] Thomas B. Edsall wrote "Donald Trump can lay claim to the title of most prodigious liar in the history of the presidency." [27] George C. Edwards III wrote: "Donald Trump tells more untruths than any previous president. There is no one that is ...
Some think a pathological liar is different from a normal liar in that a pathological liar believes the lie he or she is telling to be true—at least in public—and is "playing" the role. It is not clear, however, that this is the case, and others hold that pathological liars know precisely what they are doing.
On his debut appearance on ABC's "The View", Tim Walz defended his history of misstatements, while calling Donald Trump a "pathological liar."
If the liar is indeed lying, then the liar is telling the truth, which means the liar just lied. In "this sentence is a lie", the paradox is strengthened in order to make it amenable to more rigorous logical analysis. It is still generally called the "liar paradox" although abstraction is made precisely from the liar making the statement.
In his closing submission, Depp’s lawyer told the high court that Heard is a “compulsive liar” and “unreliable witness” as the defense relied on her allegations of abuse.
There are three degrees of comparison, it is said, in lying. There are lies, there are outrageous lies, and there are statistics." That phrase can be found in Nature, page 74 November 26, 1885: "A well-known lawyer, now a judge, once grouped witnesses into three classes: simple liars, damned liars, and experts. He did not mean that the expert ...