Falsity

Key concepts to take away: Falsity is not the same as misleadingness.

Archive 2009-03-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

Falsity which is not of evil can be conjoined with good, but falsity of evil cannot be.

Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

Falsity leads to a presumption of consumer deception and harm.

Archive 2009-04-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

Falsity and social harm are presumed to be highly correlated, but the correlation need not be perfect.

Of Markets and Ideas, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

So much of it is so manifestly untrue that Falsity would be a more accurate pseudonymn.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

˜Lying and Falsity™, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 49:

The Definition of Lying and Deception Mahon, James Edwin 2008

Falsity consists solely in the privation of knowledge which inadequate ideas involve (II. xxxv.), nor have they any positive quality on account of which they are called false (II. xxxiii.); contrariwise, in so far as they are referred to God, they are true (II. xxxii.).

The Ethics 2007

Falsity is much more common than error; falsity falls more on facts, and error on opinions.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Falsity, properly speaking, is the contrary to truth; not intentional lying.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.

The Ethics 2007