Abstract

This article defends the view that liars need not intend to deceive.I present common objections to this view in detail and then propose a case of aliar who can lie but who cannot deceive in any relevant sense. I then modify thiscase to get a situation in which this person lies intending to tell his hearer the truthand he does this by way of getting the hearer to recognize his intention to tell thetruth by lying. This case, and further cases that I develop from it, demonstratethat lying without the intention to deceive is possible.