What is the meaning of a lie?

Answer 1

80% of humanity, the religious folks, don't need to ask the meaning of life, the church tells them....the supernatural explanation. But the rest of us can't swallow religious dogma, because there's no evidence. Nobody can prove that there life after death, that people are tortured or rewarded after life or that there's invisible spirits running around.

I've come to two conclusions recently:

1. Life has no meaning
2. Life has a million meanings.

First, there's a certainty that death and annihilation awaits not only you, but the Earth in general. It's an astonomical certainty that our sun will supernova and leave the earth a burnt crisp, not to mention all the other extinction level events around the corner.

Second, the million things that give us meaning are the pleasurable experiences we can conjure up during the short period we are here on the earth, in the form of the relationships we have with our kids and other people, and the 'housekeeping' types of purposes. What i mean by that are the curing disease, ending hunger, improving literacy, reducing crime, preventing war, helping other kinds of things.

So the bottom line is, we only have a temporary meaning to life, to reduce pain and increase pleasure, other than that everything is lost to oblivion.

Answer 2

The meaning of a lie from the teller of the lie is to lead someone away from the truth. The meaning of a lie to the listener of the lie is what the listener believes to be true, whether lead down the wrong path by the teller, or interpreting his or her own meaning based on the words the teller used.

Answer 3

A lie is an untruthful statement made to someone else with the intention to deceive. To lie is to say something one believes to be false with the intention that it be taken for the truth by someone else.

A lie involves the use of conventional truthbearers, (i.e., statements in words or symbols) and not natural signs. Intentional deceit involving natural signs, such as wearing a wig, shamming a limp, or wearing a fake arm cast, is not usually classed as "lying", but as "deception".

A true statement may be a lie. If the person who makes the true statement genuinely believes it to be false, and makes the statement with the intention that his audience believe it to be true, then this is a lie (see Jean-Paul Sartre, Le Mur (1937)). When a person lies he or she is intentionally untruthful, but he or she is not necessarily making an untrue statement.

Answer 4

A lie is only in the mind of the person who views it as such. For what is truth?

Answer 5

Lack of truth.

The "meaning" depends on what the lie is about. It may be meant to deceive. It may be meant to diffuse. It may be meant to save another's feelings.

Answer 6

not let the other see u as u really r

Answer 7

not telling the truth

Answer 8

It is anything that is not true or real (((((((((( FAKE )))))))))).