Is not the same person best able to speak falsely or to speak truly about diagrams; and he is--the geometrician?
The very definition of truth and falsehood recognizes them as belonging only to affirmation or negation: when we affirm or deny in a certain way we speak truth; when in another way, we speak falsely.
To speak truth is to affirm that things which are disjoined or conjoined in fact, are disjoined or conjoined; to speak falsely, the reverse.
How can it be possible either to think or to speak falsely?
Side-note: The Sophist will reject our definition and escape, by affirming that to speak falsely is impossible.
The Sophist will reject our definition and escape, by affirming that to speak falselyis impossible.
Every man to decide for himself (taking the responsibility, of course, for his personal decision) whether he is in any sense such a guardian of his fellow-man as shall make it his duty to speak falsely to him in love!
Thus it is claimed by a Roman Catholic writer, in defense of the Jesuits, that Liguori, their favorite theologian, taught "that to speak falsely is immutably a sin against God.
Other puzzles cited in this dialogue go deeper:--Contradiction is impossible--To speak falsely is impossible.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "speak falsely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
