"Lie" or "inaccuracy" ?

Question

To what extent, if any, is there a meaningful distinction between a "lie" (intentional or unintentional) and an "inaccuracy" (intentional or unintentional) ?

Answer 1

A lie is normally intentional when you coceal, withhold or in some other manner do not tell the truth. Inaccuracy means that you were sincere about something but that you were wrong and normally something else causes you to be wrong whether it is data or someone else but it is based on another.

Official definitions:
lie noun, verb, lied, ly·ing.
–noun 1. a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.
2. something intended or serving to convey a false impression; imposture: His flashy car was a lie that deceived no one.
3. an inaccurate or false statement.
4. the charge or accusation of lying: He flung the lie back at his accusers.
–verb (used without object) 5. to speak falsely or utter untruth knowingly, as with intent to deceive.
6. to express what is false; convey a false impression.
–verb (used with object) 7. to bring about or affect by lying (often used reflexively): to lie oneself out of a difficulty; accustomed to lying his way out of difficulties.

in·ac·cu·ra·cy –noun, plural -cies for 1. 1. something inaccurate; error.
2. the quality or state of being inaccurate.

in·ac·cu·rate
–adjective not accurate; incorrect or untrue.

Answer 2

A lie is never unintentional because you have to think what is right and what is wrong then choose to tell a lie (wrong).
Inaccuracy is not having all the info and in this day and age people should start off sentences with "I may not have all the info" or "To my best knowledge"...Sometimes facts need basis and what we perceive as happening may have circumstances that began the situation before we saw what we were seeing...
Example: I went over a stretch of road that someone had just went for a tailspin and is sitting on the side of the road...Why did I not tailspin also? I am on that same stretch of road at the same time....Could it be my vehicle weight? Tires? Handling? Speed?
I did not see him go to the side of the road or how he landed up there...

Answer 3

A lie is always an intentional statement of falsehood--otherwise, it couldn't be a lie. An inaccuracy is something that is unintentional or the result of sloppy work, but rarely has the emotional charge behind it that a lie has.

Answer 4

in order to truly "lie" you must mean to mislead an audience into believing something other than the truth ....intention is the main difference. i don't believe that you can unintentionally deceive! there are three types of 'bearing false witness' as the 9th commandment calls it... there is a lie of commission; that is to say that you commit a lie or you say an untruth. there is a lie of ommission; such that you leave out a truth in order to mislead someone from the truth. and there is the less recognized lie of 'addition' where you add more information in order to confuse the audience from the truth.

that is why in a court of law in the united states you swear to tell "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth"

inaccuracies are in no ways attempts to mislead. they are, on the contrary, evidence of the fact that the speaker is the one that is mislead, otherwise all of the jeopardy contestants that have ever had an inaccuracy in their answers would be in essence, LIARS!?

hope this shines a different light on this subject for you!
good luck!

Answer 5

A lie is when you tell it; an inaccuracy is when I'm caught telling one. In other words, it's semantics.

Answer 6

Who cares! Stop nit-picking and concentrate on something constructive!