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Be unable to tell the truth

Ranked 1700 of 1996

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Atilme

Since you're unable to tell the truth, you could use that to gain knowledge of the universe just by playing 20 questions. I think people would overlook my annoying habit of always lying if I fixed the worlds problems.

JonThompsonsEmail

That is an interesting interpretation, although I would describe call what you are describing as "Be unable to say anything true". In other words, "telling the truth" is an expression that means "not lying". It DOESN'T necessarily mean saying what is absolutely true.

Suppose A is true but you think that A is false. I think it would be "telling the truth" to say that A is false, and lying (aka not "telling the truth") to say it is true. Even though it is in fact true in an absolute sense.

So I don't think this would give you any information about stuff you don't already know (or think you know).

Anyway, that is a lot of yammering about a minor point. I just don't want this option to artificially inflated in value.

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