Sartre: Bad Faith & Falsehood
This part particularly strikes me:
The essence of a lie implies in fact that the liar actually is in complete possession of the truth which he is hiding. A man does not lie about what he is ignorant of; he does not lie when he spreads an error of which he himself is the dupe; he does not lie when he is mistaken.
from Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre.
It clarifies the mechanics of deceit. Applications are limitless.
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