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The ability to believe one’s own lies is not a particularly strong defense.
If they believe it they are not LYING. Therefore it is not a lie.
They are simply incorrect.
As to the quote. That is called an "argument from authority" fallacy.
Words are tools. They have meaning. That meaning can change.
In fact look up the same word in several different dictionaries and the definitions will change a bit.
You see books are written by people. A dictionary is not a bible. It is not a tool to define what the absolute definition of words are. The people that made the dictionaries have no such authority.
It is a tool designed to help people look up words they haven't ever heard of before and try to determine what they mean. That's it. It is not the be all end all of meaning. It is simply the collated works of the human or human(s) that compiled and constructed those particular definitions.
Why is this relevant.
www.reference.com
Same damn thing. It proves nothing. It is simply an "appeal to authority" when I don't recognize any such authority.
I think we are just going to have to agree to disagree. If someone says “2+2=5” and then passes a lie detector test because he’s convinced himself that 2+2=5, fact-checking notwithstanding, I’d call that lying. Either that, or said person is just plain delusional. Which in’t much of an improvement.
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But back to the need for fact checking. It is nothing but repeating a myth to say that Al Gore said that he “invented the internet” since nobody’s ever come forward with source material quoting him saying so. What he did say about the net is well documented and quite different.
Too many posts in this thread, getting confused what goes where. Al Gore was in another post.