LIARS AND PROXY LIARS: TESTIMONIALISM IS THE CURE QUESTION: Mustn’t one knowingl

LIARS AND PROXY LIARS: TESTIMONIALISM IS THE CURE

QUESTION: Mustn’t one knowingly lie to be labelled a liar?

ANSWER: Yes under justification, and No under Criticism.

Liars? Like the Frankfurt school lies. Like women lie. It is hard to know if they know better, or just follow the commands of their genetic puppeteer, just as the idiocy of christian suicidal altruism is hard to determine if one is a puppet, a habituator of the lies of predecessors, or a liar in one’s self.

So by your question you would not punish a man for lying for having failed to perform due diligence on his statements, whereas I would.

A proxy liar is still a liar.

Failure to perform due diligence allows one to propagate lies. Requiring due diligence prevents the propagation of lies.

One can teach people supposed truths. Or one can teach people how to launder falsehoods.

A critical rationalist can not hold the former position with intellectual consistency.

(In other words, the Brits in the LA movement are arguing an intellectual contradiction.)

(So forgiving lying by proxy is also an expansion of postmodernism.)