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INTELLECTUAL HONESTY - Harvard University
LOUIS M. GUENIN. INTELLECTUAL HONESTY . ABSTRACT. Engaging a listener's trust imposes moral demands upon a pre- senter in respect of truthtelling and completeness. An agent lies by an utterance that satis es what are herein de ned as signal and mendacity conditions; an agent deceives when, in satisfaction of those conditions, the agent's utterances contrib- ute to a false belief or thwart a true one. I advert to how we may fool ourselves in observation and in the perception of our originality. Communication with oth- ers depends upon a convention or practice of presumed nonuniversal truthfulness. In support of an asserted duty of nondeceptiveness, I offer a reconciliation of pertinent Kantian passages, a sketch of arguments within utilitarianism, contrac- tarianism, and other views, and an account arguing for application of that duty to assertions, implicatures, omissions, equivocation, prevarication, and sophistry insofar as they affect listeners' doxastic states.
lying, and in §3 present grounds for a duty of truthfulness. In view ... argument why it is wrong. In §5, after defining deception of others, I define candor and nondeceptiveness. I present a scheme for understanding deception in ... always be accurate. In …
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