A logical account of lying

Sakama, Chiaki, Caminada, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7498-0238 and Herzig, Andreas 2010. A logical account of lying. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6341 , pp. 286-299. 10.1007/978-3-642-15675-5_25

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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.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Computer Science & Informatics
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Publisher:	Springer Verlag
ISSN:	0302-9743
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2022 10:17
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/84293

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